E versus e when using scientific notation

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When I was calculating pressures in different units, I decided to use Google out of laziness. First I tried:

1.013e-10 mbar 

and received a result of:

 7.598125e-11 Torr 

Then, I tried:

1.013E-10 mbar

and received a result of:

7.598124847e-11 Torr

Clearly they are close, but what is causing one to be more precise than the other? I was under the impression that they were synonomous notations for Exponent, (10E6) = 10^6. Am I wrong in their definitions or is it some kind of coding truncation? In case this is unclear, here is the conversion page I used