Method of writing numbers, especially very large or small ones.
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I made a slight error when writing this in scientific notation.
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Sadly, students still sometimes write scientific notation on their paper in the "e" format.
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For geeky men with extremely good senses of humour, I offer the total in scientific notation or hexadecimal.
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I suspect that even many students would say that "e" is the scientific notation letter as in 1.3e4 = 1.3 x 104.
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He pioneered the standard exponential notation for cubes and higher powers of numbers.