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=={{anchor|Exponent shift}}History==

An early implementation of engineering notation in the form of range selection and number display with SI prefixes was introduced in the computerized HP &nbsp;5360A [[frequency counter]] by [[Hewlett-Packard]] in 1969.<ref name="Gordon_1969"/>

Based on an idea by Peter D. Dickinson<ref name="Dickinson_1976"/><ref name="Gordon_1969"/> the first [[calculator]] to support engineering notation displaying the power-of-ten exponent values was the [[HP-25]] in 1975.<ref name="Neff_1975"/> It was implemented as a dedicated display mode in addition to scientific notation.