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Title: help understanding bitcoin numerical terminology Post by: Hydrogen on March 21, 2013, 11:04:25 PM I'm looking at bitvisitors advertising bids:
http://bitvisitor.com/stats.php It uses terminology like 3.2e-05 1.15e-05 7.2e-05 Does anyone know how to translate those to actual btc amounts? Title: Re: help understanding bitcoin numerical terminology Post by: Smt923 on March 21, 2013, 11:06:05 PM That's usually when the actual amount is so low the script (on the website it's self) doesn't seem to be able to display it properly so it just does... that. When I've just started mining on the pool I use (EMC) the estimated reward looks like that too so, I guess it's something to do with that.
Title: Re: help understanding bitcoin numerical terminology Post by: gmg on March 21, 2013, 11:08:06 PM 3.2e-5 means 3.2x10-5 = 0.000032 BTC
Title: Re: help understanding bitcoin numerical terminology Post by: Smt923 on March 21, 2013, 11:09:18 PM 3.2e-5 means 3.2x10-5 = 0.000032 BTC That makes sense, I'm awful at math, but yeah I get it now, thanks Title: Re: help understanding bitcoin numerical terminology Post by: gbl08ma on March 21, 2013, 11:10:28 PM It's called scientific notation. Here's the (probably over-complicated) Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation
Title: Re: help understanding bitcoin numerical terminology Post by: Hydrogen on March 21, 2013, 11:12:29 PM Much thanks.
3.2e-5 means 3.2x10-5 = 0.000032 BTC Then the easiest way to calculate it is to move the decimal point left one place for each - exponential value? e-5 = 5 places to the left? THANKS! |