Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form
The number 123,000,000,000 in scientific notation is written as :
Engineering notation is a version of scientific notation in which the powers of
ten must be multiples of three
they are powers of a thousand, but written as, for example, 106
instead of 10002).
| tera | T | 1,000,000,000,000 | 1012 |
| giga | G | 1,000,000,000 | 109 |
| mega | M | 1,000,000 | 106 |
| kilo | k | 1,000 | 103 |
| 1 | 100 | ||
| milli | m | 0.001 | 10¯3 |
| micro | ยต | 0.000001 | 10¯6 |
| nano | n | 0.000000001 | 10¯9 |
| pico | p | 0.000000000001 | 10¯12 |
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