Expressing Your Work in Scientific Notation : Number to Char « PL SQL « Oracle PL / SQL






  1. Oracle PL / SQL
  2. PL SQL
  3. Number to Char

Expressing Your Work in Scientific Notation

 
SQL>
SQL> DECLARE
  2       v_Convert_Number NUMBER := 90210;
  3       v_Hold_Char VARCHAR2(21) ;
  4  BEGIN
  5       v_Hold_Char := TO_CHAR(v_Convert_Number,'9.99EEEE');
  6       DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The Scientific Notation is: ' || v_Hold_Char);
  7  END;
  8  /
The Scientific Notation is:   9.02E+04

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> --








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