Numbers
Exponential Notation
Sometimes when numbers are very big or very small it is more compact to use a different notations for them. Here are different notations examples. Each row has the same number written in different ways.
| Common | Exponential | E form | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100000000 | 1 x 100000000 | 1 x 108 | 1e8 |
| 124000000 | 1.24 x 100000000 | 1.24 x 108 | 1.24e8 |
| 100000 | 1 x 100000 | 1 x 105 | 1e5 |
| 547000 | 5.47 x 100000 | 5.47 x 105 | 5.47e5 |
| 120 | 1.2 x 100 | 1.2 x 102 | 1.2e2 |
| 10 | 1 x 10 | 1 x 101 | 1e1 |
| 1 | 1 x 1 | 1 x 100 | 1e0 |
| 0.0001 | 1 x 0.0001 | 1 x 10-4 | 1e-4 |
| 0.000214 | 2.14 x 0.0001 | 2.14 x 10-4 | 2.14e-4 |
| 0.00000001 | 1 x 0.00000001 | 1 x 10-8 | 1e-8 |
| 0.00000007 | 7 x 0.00000001 | 7 x 10-8 | 7e-8 |