I notice that in these articles there’s not even any markup that attempts to raise the powers as appropriate. Might I recommend the use of the humble <sup> tag? Or, if the CMS doesn’t allow that, using the Unicode superscript numbers as appropriate (e.g. 3×10⁸ - also note the use of × instead of x).
I assume that the math was actually formatted correctly in whatever text editor the SDStaff member was using, but it got copy-pasted into a CMS that isn’t rich-text aware.
It’s been a long time, so I can’t remember for sure, but I’m pretty sure that I submitted that on a vBulletin board, with proper superscripting. The most likely place for a copy-and-paste error would be from there to the website’s database, but then again, I also think I remember it posting correctly (or being swiftly corrected) when it was first posted. I’m not sure when the formatting would have been lost after that.
Those Reports have been from pillar to post over the years and run through different processing systems and stored on different servers. I’m surprised they’re not all alphabet soup.
Keep in mind as well that the origination point has also changed over the years as we transitioned through typing and word processing systems and different formatting for all the things that have come between here and now. When they say “garbage in/garbage out,” they ain’t kidding.
Please bring anything you see like that to my attention and I’ll fix it. Sorry for any inconvenience.
your humble TubaDiva
(Correcting you online content since 1996. It’s taking longer than we thought.)
