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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