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OCR: Powers POWERS provide way of shortening numbers by using multiples of A NUMBER such as 1,000 can be written as 10 te the third power 103 This tells us that the 10 is be multiplied like this: 10 10 10 000 By adding minus sign to the power 15 possible to shorten numbers smaller than 1.2 10 0.000012 NUMBEF