{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/issues/61","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/issues/61/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/issues/61/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/issues/61/events","html_url":"https://github.com/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/issues/61","id":66016148,"number":61,"title":"Option for \"Engineering notation\" - With toExponential()","user":{"login":"mgkr","id":7891248,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7891248?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr","html_url":"https://github.com/mgkr","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mgkr/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-04-02T21:37:50Z","updated_at":"2015-04-03T18:15:16Z","closed_at":"2015-04-03T18:15:16Z","body":"Engineering notation: \"the powers of ten must be multiples of three\".\r\n\r\nIt would be nice to have the ability to output 12356 as 12.345e+3, instead of 1.23456e+5.\r\n\r\nEither as it's own method toEngineering() - Identical to toExponential() except for the \"multiples of three\" bit.\r\n\r\nOR\r\n\r\nAs an extra parameter(\\*) to toExponential()\r\n(*) Which perhaps could then allow an arbitrary multiple (not just 3)\r\n\r\nAnd if it was possible to query a BigNumber for this \"Engineering\" exponent as well (similar to BN.e) that would be an extra bonus"}}