scientific notation
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English
Noun
scientific notation (uncountable)
- (mathematics) a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10
- (mathematics) an alternative format of such a decimal number immediately followed by E and an integer
- The number 0.00236 is written in scientific notation as 2.36×10−3 or as 2.36E-3.
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standard format
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alternative format
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