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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-1828) Engineering notationrequires a slightly modified scientific format in which the exponent isalways divisible by 3.



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Robert Weir  commented on OFFICE-1828:
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According to this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Examples_of_use

It looks like large numbers in Chinese are based on groupings of 10^4.

> Engineering notation requires a slightly modified scientific format in which the exponent is always divisible by 3.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFFICE-1828
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-1828
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Table
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.2
>            Reporter: Andreas Guelzow 
>            Assignee: Andreas Guelzow 
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: ODF 1.3 CSD 01
>
>
> Engineering notation frequently requires a slightly modified scientific format in which the exponent is always divisible by 3.
> We should allow for an attribute (number:exponent-factor or something like) that that determines which multiples are allowed as exponents. It would be 1 for regular scientific notation, 3 for engineering notation,...
> Gnumeric currently only allows regular scientific notation and engineering notation and uses a foreign attribute  "gnm:engineering"  to <number:scientific-number>. A value of "true" indicates that the exponent will always be a multiple of 3.
> In this proposal I intend to provide for a more general situation by providing an attribute to <number:scientific-number> that has, at this time, the two integer values 1 and 3 as possible values. This will permit easier extension if any implementation desires to allow other multipliers. 

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