[GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

Alvin Starr alvin at netvel.net
Mon Jul 30 16:17:41 EDT 2018


On 07/30/2018 04:09 PM, Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk wrote:
> Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2018-07-30 3:46 PM:
>> Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or 
>> 20M or 40G within LIbreOffice?
>>
>> I have had little luck searching with google et al.
>>
>> While I am at it how about engineering notation?
>
> I think you looking for superscript and/or subscript: 
> <https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Making_Text_Superscript_or_Subscript> 
> for display.
>
> If you are working in Calc look at: 
> <https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Number_Format_Codes#Scientific_Notation>

Scientific notation is 1.87272837373E+5  and engineering notation tends 
to be 3 digits and an exponent that is a multiple of 3 like 103E+3 or 
2.25E-6

For SI 1000 =1k 1000000=1M and so on.
SI like output is what you get from df -h or ls -h


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