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Discussion on: Trivia: The letter "e" is special. 🧙‍♂️

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David Wickes • Edited

this notation gives a huge number 9 to the power of 9

Not quite. 9e9 is "9 times 10 to the power of 9". It's a way of expressing a number inscientific notation.

Although I'll admit I'm blown-away-surprised that it's accepted in CSS!

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Adam Crockett 🌀

IL take that correction and edit it and you take the knowledge that you can win an z-index battle (not that anyone should be in that position)