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Scientific notation

Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, since to do so would require writing out an inconveniently long string of digits. It may be referred to as scientific form or standard index form, or standard form in the United Kingdom. This base ten notation is commonly used by…

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Scientific notation

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Scientific notationrelated to Basic operationsMultiplication0.60section
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