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Engineering Notation in Excel ? 4

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DRex

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Most calculators have an Engineering notation feature which formats output in Scientific Notation with the 10 power restricted to multiples of 3.

eg. 534.0x10^3 rather than 5.340x10^5

Does anyone know how to do this in Excel?







 
Enter data in Engrg notation by using, for example, 12e6 for 12 million. Custom format cells as ##0.0E+0, then any entry will appear in Engrg. notation. Hope this helps.

 
I tired using ##0.00E+0 and ##00.00E+0 and I get answers that are wrong:

510/7372800 = 69.17 E-6

Excel tells me 6.91E-6 or 691.7E-8 both wrong.
 
Finger trouble perhaps? Lcubed's answer is correct! :-)
 
seems to work correctly here:

510/7372800 69.2E-6


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