Scientific Notation

Scientific notation helps mathematicians and scientists work with very large and very small numbers. It’s a kind of mathematical shorthand. Learn more about how very big and very small the things we study can be…

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

And for more on scientific notation….

http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/scinote/

http://www.ieer.org/clssroom/scinote.html

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/exponent3.htm