Question

What is scientific notation and can I please have an example?

Answer 1

Scientific notation is the way that scientists easily handle very large numbers or very small numbers. For example, instead of writing 0.0000000056, we write 5.6 x 10-9. quoted from http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-scnot.html

Answer 2

sometimes they use E, like 5E+3 is 5x10^3 =5000