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Calc: Using scientific numbers

by AG-21 :: Rate this Message:

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Hello

I am using scientific notation in a spreadsheet, but want to round the
data off to a common exponent.

At present I have data such as:

6.8E+15
1.15E+21
5.09E+19

and so on.

I want to do a graph, but at present the columns are very out of
proportion because of the data with 21 as an exponent.  I therefore
wanted to change this to ^19 which about the most frequently occurring
exponent in my data set.  How do I do this?  At the moment, whenever I
try, Cacl very helpfully (or not!!) automatically changes 115E+19 back
to 1.15E+21 and so on.  I obviously cannot change this to text in terms
of the formatting otherwise it seems as if the chart won't pick it up
for display.  So how do I get around this?

Thanks

AG

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