How do you express #2650000# in scientific notation?

1 Answer
David G.
Mar 15, 2018

The decimal point is (invisibly) to the right of the final #0#. Leapfrog it from there left, counting the jumps, until it is to the right of the leftmost number (#2#). There are #6# jumps, so we write: #2.65xx10^6# (no need to include the trailing zeroes).

Related questions
Impact of this question
1808 views around the world
You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License