GeneralScientific Notation?

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EFaden
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Scientific Notation?

Post by EFaden »

Whats the best way to do scientific notation in LaTeX? Right now I use

\providecommand{\e}[1]{\ensuremath{\times 10^{#1}}}

Are there any better ways to do it?

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josephwright
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Scientific Notation?

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Perhaps us siunitx:

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\num{1e10}
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