How do you use scientific notation in Flexsim? I've tried using 6.8e17, 6.8e+17, and 6.8x10^17, but none worked. I need to do a duniform distribution that goes from 1 to 6.8e17.
FlexSim does not parse any scientific notation characters, so if you want to do something like 6.8e17, then you would need to use the pow() command where the first parameter is 10 and the second parameter is the exponent. Then, multiply that number with the significand. So it would look something like this:
6.8 * pow(10, 17)
FlexSim 2017 Update 1 (just released in beta [2017-03-08]) adds the following feature:
- Improved scientific notation for literals in FlexScript.
Scientific notation was actually added in 17.0 but requires a decimal point:
3.4e3 //3400
In 17.1 it was improved so that the decimal point isn't necessary:
3e3 //3000
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