Expressing number in exponential format

We are work开发者_开发知识库ing on a flex project

I need to display a number coming from a calculation in exponential format- essentially, show 80900 as 8.09* 10^4; 4.1e-4 as 4.1*10^-4 etc

Any simple way by which I can take the number and separate the exponent and the significand- without getting into string operations.

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Try to look into Number.toExponential() method described here.

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See if this helps:

"Let's create a custom formatter to change a regular number format to an exponential notation or a fixed-point notation with two fractional digits"