Template:Val/doc

Purpose

Set of templates that can be used to easily present values in scientific notation, including uncertainty. They have the same look and feel and wrap the entire result in a"nowrap" block, so it never gets broken in seperate pieces at the end of a line.

Arguments

1 The value

or

1 The value

2 The uncertainty

or

1 The value

s The significance

or

2 The upper limit of uncertainty

3 The lower limit of uncertainty (must be a negative value)

and you can use the following optional named arguments:

n The value as a number to be formatted using {{delimitnum}} (Leave first argument empty when using this)

e The exponent for power of 10.

u The units for the number.

Units are replaced by a more esthetically pleasing HTML representation and get a link, if they are in the list found in {{ScientificValue/units}} or if they are supported by {{convert}}. A good example is "m/s", which gets translated to "m·s^-1".

Examples

{{ScientificValue|1.234}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
Uncertainty/significance
{{ScientificValue|1.234|0.005}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
{{ScientificValue|1.234|+0.005|-0.001}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
{{ScientificValue|1.234|s=5}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
Exponents/units
{{ScientificValue|1.234|e=10|u=m}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
{{ScientificValue|1.234|0.05|e=5}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
{{ScientificValue|1.234|+0.05|-0.04|e=-23|u=m/s}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
{{ScientificValue|1.234|0.04|e=3|u=psi}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
{{ScientificValue|123.4|u=USgal}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
{{ScientificValue|12.34|u=mpgimp}}	→	Template:ScientificValue
Using {{delimitnum}}
{{ScientificValue||n=123456789.0123456789}}	→	Template:ScientificValue