scientific notation

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“Atto” is the scientific notation prefix that represents 10-18, which is a decimal point followed by 17 zeroes and a 1.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2023

This will give you good practice with scientific notation, since the numbers involved are very large!

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

In scientific notation, this would become 2.36 × 108.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

In scientific notation, if you want to write a number such as 500,000,000, you express it as 5 × 108.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Why don’t news magazines and newspapers make appropriate use of scientific notation in their stories?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos