How do you write 300,000,000,000,000,000 in scientific notation?

1 Answer
Feb 6, 2016

3.0×1017

Explanation:

1300,000,000,000,000,000
XX=3×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10×10
XX=3×1017

The mantissa for normailzed scientific notation is always written with one digit, followed by a decimal point and the remaining fractional digits; except for the value zero, the leading digit should be non-zero.
This is followed by the exponential portion in the form 10appropriate power

So for the given value, scientific notation should be:
XXX3.0×1017