For short you call this scientific notation. FIRST Count how many time you need to move the decimal over to make your single digit more then 1 and less then 10. So we will erase the 0's as we go along. 167000,000,000,000 So in this case we want to make the single digit 1.67 so it can be greater then 1 and less then 10 So now we see how many times we need to move the decimal and when you cant see the decimal just imagine it at the very end of the problem 167000,000,000,000 (For the mods out there I copied and pasted the bold number so i didn't have to take a while to retype the whole number. Thanks.) SO NOW I get 14 because that's how many spots the decimal moved over. Now since we need to right it in SN we need to write out this X*10^X The exponent X stands for how many times we moved the decimal over. I got 14 so we have that exponent X*10^14 NOW We need to fiqure out X.... X was just the number we made greater then one and less then 0. So thats 1.67 So we get 1.67*10^14
