e--00x numbers?

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Anyone know what these numbers are (im not a mathmatician ;)), what im trying to do load save vertex coordinates to a seperate file for reading later into another program. What I get tho is stuff like:
Data 0.023532e-004, 0.0345424e-002 etc

what im after is what they are and how to 'convert' them back to the proper values. Anyone have any ideas as its driving me nutts? :)