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Comment by tedsanders | Hacker News Reader

10^14 is what they were going for. It is indeed a typo.

They're using the "<sup>" HTML tag for the exponent. It's not a typo; it's crap rendering.

For whatever reason, their CSS overrides the vertical-align of a large number of elements (possibly all of them?) to "vertical-align: baseline;". Odd, to say the least.

A bad css reset file seems to be the problem. It sets `vertical-align: baseline` on just about everything, including the sub and sup tags. Then never sets sub and sup back to anything reasonable.

> 10^14

The lesson in this: All this incredible markup syntax, rendering engines, and formatting tools, but if you want to be absolutely sure that you data is communicated correctly, better use plaintext.

I'd say the lesson is CSS more delicately, though this is hard to do without better CSS.

Does unicode count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...

10¹⁴

10e14

what did you do here? Renders as 10^1^4

    1    000031 DIGIT ONE
    0    000030 DIGIT ZERO
    ¹    0000B9 SUPERSCRIPT ONE
    ⁴    002074 SUPERSCRIPT FOUR

Ah ok must be my font.

Searching the page for "14" misses this.

It shouldn't; search should operate in compatibility normalization space (preferably NFKD). Chrome on Windows gets this right, btw.

Searching the page for either digit misses it (Firefox 50.0.2)

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