NASA has teamed up with two technology crowdsourcing organizations in an effort to put some of its supercomputer code into afterburner mode. In an announcement on May 2, the director of NASA's Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) launched the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge, an effort to accelerate NASA's Modern Fortran-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, FUN3D.
In the NASA announcement, NASA TACP Director Dough Rohn called the challenge “the ultimate ‘geek’ dream assignment." Launched in a partnership with HeroX and Topcoder, the competition gives an…
Alternative: Don't worry yourself about such things or risk running in such errors, simply let the siunitx package do it for you:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
the charge of a single electron is \SI{-1.6e-19}{\coulomb}
\end{document}
There has been a recent spike in the number of Announcer badges being awarded on TeX.SE. A query on SEDE highlights this:
The last four months saw the occasional awarding of more than one-a-day, with April 2017 shooting up to 3+ per day.
Similar increases or spikes seem to have occurred on SO...
