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A good writeup on scientific notation is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation
A good writeup on scientific notation is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation


((NOTE: we really ought to decide on whether we're going to use the "1E9" or the "1x10^9" or a typeset notation as our Wiki standard>>
Stylistically, on the Galactic Library, the preferred style for writing 1.5 million in scientific notation is
 
<math>1.5 \cdot 10^6</math>

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A good writeup on scientific notation is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation

Stylistically, on the Galactic Library, the preferred style for writing 1.5 million in scientific notation is