Scientific Notation in Calculation (error)

[MJ1972]

I've got a bunch of lookups to an API for crypto currency prices. Most of these are working, but one (SHIB) is giving problems, I'm assuming because it has such a small value per coin.

The figure I'm working with is from https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=SHIB&tsyms=GBP (currently 0.00003003).

That value is so small, and typically I want to multiply that by thousands, or even millions, but the error Tasker throws is something like: -

Expr mathEval: round(xxxxxx*2.816e-05*100)/100: dsv/Variable Set/round(%MYSHIBTOTAL*%shibprice*100)/100: Mathematical expression contains the invalid value "2.816e" at offset 15 in expression "round(xxxxxx*2.816e-05*100)/100"

xxxxxx is the value I'm multiplying by, the 2.816e-05 is what tasker is using for the returned value - I need this not to be converted to scientific notation.

Any ideas / workarounds?

[jmjc...@gmail.com]

Assume %num has the value of "2.816e-05"

Use a Variable Search Replace action to replace "e" with "*10^"

Variable Search Replace:

Variable: %num

Search: e

Replace Matches: check

Replace With: *10^

Then %num will become "2.816*10^-05" and will work in a Do Math action.

[MJ1972]

That worked... thanks again!