[mrtg] Re: rrdtool question

Nicolas Sayer Nick at loplop.net
Mon Jun 25 16:38:37 MEST 2001


On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:15:37AM -0500, Perry, Duane  said:
> 
> I have been trying to debug some scripts that I am attempting to graph with
> rrd.  I decided to look at the data to see what I was getting.  I followed
> the instructions and used rrdtool with the "dump" and "fetch" options and
> get stuff like this:
> 
> 
>       993466800: 7.8389333333e+00 8.6850000000e-01
>       993467100: 1.9619408562e+02 9.8201148272e-01

> Is this some kind of scietific notation?  It is supposed to be "human
> readable", I guess I don't qualify.

It's human readable. From what I know it's called "Engineer Notation"
We call it floating point.

22e3 for example means 22 * 10^3
the ^ is power
so 22e3 = 22000

in the same maner:
1.2345e3 = 1234.5

or in your case:
993466800: 7.8389333333e+00 8.6850000000e-01
could be written: 993466800: 7.8389333333 0.86850000000

	regards,
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Nicolas Sayer <Nick at loplop.net>
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