What does "scientific notation" mean?

a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10

Scientific notation

Common synonyms include: engineering notation, exponential, exponential notation, notation style, notational, notational form.

noun

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Noun

1
a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10 uncountable
2
an alternative format of such a decimal number immediately followed by E and an integer uncountable
"The number 0.00236 is written in scientific notation as 2.36×10⁻³ or as 2.36E-3."

"The number 0.00236 is written in scientific notation as 2.36×10⁻³ or as 2.36E-3."