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Expressing your work in scientific notation with TO_CHAR()





SQL> -- Expressing your work in scientific notation.

SQL> DECLARE

  2        myNumber NUMBER := 90210;

  3        myChar VARCHAR2(21) ;

  4  BEGIN

  5        myChar := TO_CHAR(myNumber,'9.99EEEE');

  6        DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The Scientific Notation is: ' || myChar);

  7  END;

  8  /

The Scientific Notation is:   9.02E+04



PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.



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