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OCR: CI EN T F T ON wav f conveniently writing very large small numbers The form of a number in scientific notation is 10^n where vis any number between and 10 or and -10 and n is any positive or negative integer. The n tells how many decimal places to move the decimal negative mean move left (a number between 0 and or 0 and while positive n'means move right number greater than or Jess thar 1. For rexample the distance to the Sun 1.5 108 m or150000000 km; the mass of an electron 9.11 10 -28 or 0.00000000000000000000000000091 [27 zeros] ENTI CTATIDN Lnumber 150000000 less example