Variable Logic of '123e5'

[shaijuelayidath]

I have a doubt from the 'W3Schools' JS Tutorials, It is given below. The 'var y=123e5' produces 12300000.And 'var z=123e-5' produces 0.00123I did'nt understand what 'e5' and 'e-5' are stands for and how formed 12300000 from '123e5'and 0.00123 from '123e-5' ? The code given below. <script type="text/javascript">{var y=123e5;var z=123e-5;document.write(y+"<br/>"+z);}</script>

[Ingolme]

It's a short form of scientific notation used in floating point numbers. The e represents 10 elevated to the number that follows it. 5e6 is the same as 5 * 10⁶ or 5 * 1,000,000 = 5,000,000

[shaijuelayidath]

can you give me any reference site to study scientific notations

[Ingolme]

This is scientific notation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Notation

[zinnira]

var z=123e-5' produces 0.00123I

take "e" as "10*"
so 123e5 will be taken as 123 x 10*5 = 12300000

similary "e-" will be taken as "/10"

so 123e-5 becomes 123x 1/20*5 = 123/100000 = 0.00123

 

 

[Ingolme]

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