Scientific Notation
Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers of very large and very small sizes compactly when precision is less important.
A number written in scientific notation has a mantissa multiplied by a power of ten.
Sometimes written in the form:
a x 10b
Or more compactly as:
aEb
Read more about this topic: Powers Of 10
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