Template:Val/doc

Purpose

To easily present values in scientific notation, including uncertainty. Wraps entire result in "nowrap" block, so it never gets broken in seperate pieces at the end of a line.

There is a shorter aliases for this template: {{val}}, you are encouraged to use this shorter version. ({{ScientificValue}} may be deprecated in the near future in favor of this new, shorter name).

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