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

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...

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.

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