Summary
- Scientific notation or standard form is a convenient way to represent very large and very small numbers.
- To represent a number in scientific notation, insert a decimal point after the first non-zero digit and multiply by the appropriate power of 10.
Final examples
81 362 000 000 000 = 8.1362 × 10\(^{13}\)
0.000 000 000 38 = 3.8 × 10\(^{-10}\)
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