I'm having trouble understanding this. Related to combinations of passwords. To find out number of possibilities for a 10 keyboard character long password. I have been told that to find the answer I would need to do 96^10. when that is calculated, it gives me 6.648326e+19 as the answer. i've asked someone for clarification and they've told me that 96^10 = "6.6 x 10^19" but I don't know where the 6.6 has come from, nor do I know how to view the answer correctly without it displaying "e"

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anonymous · Answer

The e just means x 10^19. Which make it an extremely long number that has 19 digits in front of the decimal.
Imagine this 6600000000000000000. Except we shorten that to 6.6e+19

anonymous · Answer

the password is 10 chars long, the password uses ASCII chars, which are total 95 printable ascii chars
10^95 = 5.987369392 x 10 ^ 19

anonymous · Answer

Is there some sort of calculator available online where I can get the correct figures from 10^95? everything I use just gives me an E in it

anonymous · Answer

I just need to be able to do it for myself as well

anonymous · Answer

the E is accepted.  youre not going to get an "exact" answer because its too big to write down.  There is nothing wrong with the E, or using scientific notation.  infact, i would just leave the answer as 96^10.  thats exact.

anonymous · Answer

you dont need to calculate 96^10.  thats the answer.

anonymous · Answer

Alright, that's great. So I should still give the answer with a E in it? And it will be accepted at University level?

anonymous · Answer

i would really just leave it at 96^10.  if you really insist on calculating it, yes, just leave the E in it.  its accepted.