Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for May 22, 2012

That could be bad or good, depending on whether the exponent on the 10, in the price, is positive or negative.

The real price for the steak is $3.95 [cubed]

Yeah, I can’t even remember what scientific notation is anymore. Definitely over my head.

Can you write a check in scientific notation?How much for a mole of mole sauce?

Scientific notation doesn’t mean numbers cubed or squared… it means numbers times a power of ten.

E.G. a steak priced at $3.95 × 102 is really $395.00.If the steak itself is cubed…. wow, that’s awfully expensive for cube steak.

wow, I didn’t know the HTML code for superscript, so I guessed — and it works!

If you are in Greece, then this would be normal. I think the exchange rate for the dollar vs. the drachma measures the drachma in metric tonnage…

Well, if we’re talking about cubes, why wasn’t the painting on the wall done in Cubism style? And why is the table a cylinder?