what is scientific notation
Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form. In normalized scientific notation all numbers are written in the form a x 10^b (a times ten raised to the power of b) where a is a nonzero single-digit integer and b is an integer.he second number is called the base and in scientific notation must always be 10. In the number 1.23 x 108 the number 8 is the exponent or power of ten. How to Write a Number in Scientific Notation For large numbers : 1) Put the decimal after the first digit and drop the zeroes.