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How to write a numbers in Scientific Notation.

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Published: 10 Jan 2018 › Updated: 10 Jan 2018How to write a numbers in Scientific Notation.

How to write a numbers in Scientific Notation.

Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form.
Source: Wikipedia.

Let us learn how to change a standard number into a scientific number.

Example: 72093

Step 1 :
Insert a decimal comma/point in front of the first digit.

Important to remember:

Step 2 :

Multiply this number by 10.

Step 3 :

Count the number of places from the decimal comma/point to the end of the number

There are 4 places from the decimal comma/point to the end of the number.

Step 4 :

The amount of places moved will be your power.

It is now true to say that

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