Scientific Notation Draft V 0.1

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This illustration is complete.
See it here

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There has been a scientific notation illustration on SciencePrimer for a very long time. It was one of the first illustration I wrote. The current version is one of the las illustrations on the site that still relies on java to run.

This draft rewrite is the first pass at creating a native javascript version of that illustration.

The functionality of this version mirrors that of the original illustration.

The illustration show numbers in regular and scientific notation in the range of 0.0001 to 10,000 (1e-4 to 1e4 or 1×10-4 to 1×104)

Status V 0.1

  • The illustration is mobile friendly - shrinking to fit narrow mobile screens.
  • The values on the slider cover a relatively narrow range, but the illustration is not meant to be a calculator. The goal is to show the patterns over this range.

Next Steps
- Not sure if this needs any more work. This version covers the same content as the old java based illustration.

I will let this sit here on the development site for a few weeks and revisit it. If I come up with some additional functionality that makes sense, I will modify the code.

If not, I may post it as is.