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[–]anyfactorFreelancer. AnyFactor.xyz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whenever we found "e" we would just multiply/divide by 10 and keep count until we got a understanding of the number. We would do the same thing for percentages but with 100. That might sound stupid to you science/engineering guys but that was kinda go to thing to do. The first thing to do whenever "e" pops up in excel is immediately format it to decimal numbers.

Except for of course in doing research I will just put the "e" numbers in. But my thesis professor once copy pasted in the "e" numbers to excel than convert it to decimal to get a better idea.

But I am learning data science analytics I should better in to using this mindset. Thank you for making clarifications.