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Scientific Notation

A convenience for displaying numbers using powers of 10 notation. Some examples:

$\displaystyle 1000$	$\textstyle =$	$\displaystyle 10^3$
$\displaystyle 0.001$	$\textstyle =$	$\displaystyle 10^{-3}$
$\displaystyle 2156$	$\textstyle =$	$\displaystyle 2.156 \times 10^3$
$\displaystyle 0.035$	$\textstyle =$	$\displaystyle 3.5\times 10^{-2}$

2006-01-05