<span>900,000,000 < --- nine hundred million miles 9 x 10^8 miles <---10 will always be the base number, and the exponent is the number of zeros that is represented
Scientific notation is a when numbers that are too big or small are expressed in a convenient manner by writing them in decimal form.
Scientific notation is usually used by mathematicians, and engineers, to simplify arithmetic operations. It I written as : a × 10^n i.e a times 10 raise to the power of n.
