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Posted by Alexander on January 30, 2001 02:28:54 UTC

10^4 is a common notation for powers, 10^4=10000. Also you may find notations like 10E4 or 10**4.

They all came from (still) having no superscript/subscript cases (or symbols)in most (if not all) computer languages (as well as on the keybords).

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of course! - gwynj - January 31, 2001 - 00:11 UTC

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