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Scientific Notation

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Scientific notation writes a number as a × 10ⁿ, where a is at least 1 and less than 10 in absolute value and n is an integer.

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4,700,000 becomes 4.7 × 10⁶; 0.00032 becomes 3.2 × 10⁻⁴. Large numbers take positive powers, small ones negative.

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