Question

What is the difference between proper scientific notation and standard scientific notation

Answer 1

Say you are trying to write a very big number, how about 13 s extillion

Now, we could write this number like this

13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in standard notation

Or, we could write it like this

1.3 x 10^22, in scientific notation, which is vastly easier to deal with.