2.6) Dealing With Very Large And Small Numbers

You don’t want to be entering too many zeros so scientific notation is represented in the following way.

It is confusing since the E represents x10 to the power and not the e in math which is e = 2.7182818.

So in a Fortran code, if you had a variable a, you could set it equal to the number above by including a line as:

a=3.456734E4