Displaying scientific notation in VB Express 2008

Question

Hello!  I've written a small program that does some calculations and I want to display some of the results in scientific notation. For example, I want to display 0.005 as 5.0E-3. Is there a way to do this? If so, please give some sample code as I am VERY new to VB.

Thanks!
Jeff

Answer 1

Try something like
Dim num as decimal=0.005D
Dim SN as string=num.ToString("E1")

Note: E or e is the format specifier for scientific notation
and append the number of decimal places with E such as ("E1") 1 decimal places


kaymaf

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I hope this helps, if that is what you want, just mark it as answer so that we can move on

Answer 2

kaymaf:

That did the trick wonderfully!!  THANKS! 

Jeff