Subject: Re: [HM] scientific notation
From: James A. Landau (JJJRLandau@aol.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 20:13:35 EST
If anyone is still interested in the subject:
I found a usage of scientific notation in a book published in 1863
(_The Annual Encyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1862_
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1863)
article on "Electricity" page 404
<quote>
The aim should be to make this standard [of electrical resistance] correspond
to a current force equal to 10,000,000,000 times the value given by the
quotient of 1 metre by 1 second of time, that is,
10 me\tre
10 -----------
seconds
<\quote>
James A. Landau
Systems Engineer
FAA Technical Center (ACT-350/BCI)
Atlantic City Airport NJ 08405 USA
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