Convert a regular number to scientific notation, or vice versa.
Scientific notation expresses very large or very small numbers compactly as a coefficient between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of ten — useful in physics, chemistry, and engineering.
A compact way of writing very large or small numbers as a value between 1-10 times a power of 10.
Move the decimal until one non-zero digit remains before it; the places moved becomes the exponent.
It makes extremely large or small numbers much easier to read, write, and calculate with.