Template talk:X10^

message: This template is intended to facilitate and uniformise scientific notation numbers. To render:
:3.14×10−12
instead of writing:
:3.14×10−12
you can write simply (and much more legibly):
:3.14
which yields:
:3.14
Urhixidur 20:46, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Copying this to the template page under Usage. (It'll be much more helpful there.) — SheeEttin {T/C} 14:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Use

message: I'm coming from Category talk:Chemical element symbol templates#Standard, and there is a discussion there about creating a standard chemical symbol template which applies to all elements. This template, however, needs a name, and  is already taken. Since the next logical name, , is already used by this template, I would suggest a move of this template to Template:10^ (valid title) or something else, but I noticed the  template, which seems to make this template redundant. Since either this or the  template is redundant, I suggest that this template be replaced with the element template (see a working example in my sandbox) and the  template be used instead of, or replaced by (replace the wikicode there with), this one. Please comment. :) Nihiltres 17:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Without any response, I'm going to go ahead (being bold) with a move to replace  with this template, change all links here to go to that template (edit: subst every instance of this template, including the insane ones), and add the element template here. If you don't agree, please say so now and leave me a message on my talk page - I'm going to go ahead after placing this note. Nihiltres 04:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  i think i disagree.  this exponential notation is very useful and i believe will be more widely used than the chemical template for a non-existant element that you want to create. r b-j 02:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text:  also, did you notify User:Urhixidur about this?  i don't think he would like what you're doing either. r b-j 02:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Should this be moved, deleted, or left alone?

message: I've noticed that when using this template, a line break is added between the preceding number and the e template.  For example, 5, yields:
:5  I've added a br post-fix to show original problem -- SGBailey 08:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Still not fixed (or explained) -- SGBailey 08:25, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done.  Hopefully nobody depended on the earlier, broken behavior.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 10:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fixed behaviour - 5 -- SGBailey 08:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excess line break 

message: Add interwiki to :cs:Šablona:Scinum. Thanks. --User:DJ Jeri  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.100.187.45 (talk) 13:45, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  cs: 

message: It might be useful if the template converted hyphens into true minus signs automatically.  The following code would do the job.
×10
or with that space between the "×" & the "10" ... 
× 10
or making the space optional ... 
×10
Anyhow back to the minus sign ... It seems to me that such a modification would be of great help, making it easier to enter negative exponents when calling the template directly and making possible to display proper minus signs when calling the template from another template without having to convert to real minus signs in that original template.  There should be no problem with backward compatibility.  The code above will treat − or the actual character as a non-numerical entity and will therefore return just what it always did.  Also non-numerical strings containing hyphens will be left alone.  And if you really must have a hyphen with your number use -. JЇѦρ 01:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Minus sign

message: Replace
 × 10



with
 × 10




This adds the } functionality to the exponent, and will now output  as  rather than as . It is fully backwards compatible, so if , or  was entered, they will display as usual ( and ). Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:41, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent! Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minus recognition and {{tl|val}} enhancements 

message: I'm not sure if the above change is the cause, but an excess line break similar to that noted above (#excess line break) in 2007 has reappeared, but immediately before the exponent rather than before the times sign. This line break only occurs if the paragraph within which the template is used is preceded by one or more colons, as on talk pages. This new line break even appears above in the 2007 complaint.
Thus no line break: 5
:versus a line break: 5 
— Joe Kress (talk) 06:06, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I found the problem, see my editprotected request at Template talk:Val/delimitnum. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. That was half the problem, the other was a line break in between the  and the {{#switch:... line. Thanks to PeterSymonds for his time. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:34, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Excess line break part 2

message: Replace the current code with
 × 10
This will implement the new functionalities described in the documentation. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:55, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Shii (tock) 21:11, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional features

message: Any objection to adding a tracking category which would check for usage without specifying the exponent?  It turns out that this template is used on the FR wiki for ordinals.  This check would catch some cut-and-paste errors coming from copying stuff from the FR wiki.  Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like there is no objection.  I will add it soon. Plastikspork (talk) 00:41, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tracking category 

message: I suggest to replace
:  × 
with
: ×
Explanation: this keeps the same amount of space between the mantissa and the multiplication sign, but reduces the amount of space between the multiplication and the exponent. This offsets the fact that the digit "1" has the extraneous padding on the left (at least in the default font used on Wikipedia). As a result of this change spacing around the multiplication sign will look more balanced. For example, compare the current version: 6.022, and the proposed version: 6.022×.  // stpasha »  07:50, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks fine to me. Tony (talk) 11:52, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:12, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spacing (2) 

message: :Category:Articles using E without any arguments has been nominated for renaming to "Category:Articles using x10^ with no parameters". A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 09:34, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Articles using E without any arguments]] has been nominated for renaming to "Category:Articles using x10^ with no parameters"