[Scilab-users] What is D in Scilab? what is its use?

[Dang, Christophe]

Hello, 

> De : tanthiamhuat
> Envoyé : mardi 24 juin 2014 09:25
>
> but I still prefer 
> -->3*10^-3
> [...] to be more readable than
> -->3d-3

I think this is quite different.

When you write "3e-3", you define a number; "0.003" is just another way to write it.

When you write "3*10^-3", you define an operation which result is 3e-3.
So this takes more time and more resource.

You can see it if you type "10^10".

The difference is negligible for one number, but imagine you handle a matrix with millions of reals or complexes...

Best regards

-- 
Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
Mechanical calculation engineer

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