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Anyway, if scientists had to write all of those zeros every time they calculated something about our planet, they'd waste ages! It's much easier to recall how to write a number in standard form and say that the mass of Earth is, in fact, which is the number we had initially but with the point two places to the right. This movement by 2 is shown by the power in the standard form exponents.

There is a valuable lesson here: writing numbers in standard form is not always the way to go. It's all about simplicity of notation, but, at the end of the day, it pretty much boils down to a matter of personal preference (or your teacher's if you're writing a test). Now, this looks even worse than the previous example; it doesn't have commas in between! Thankfully, there are tools - like our standard form calculator - to make our lives easier. So, what is the standard form of the above numbers?

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It might seem artificial to write a sum of the products, like 1×100 or 4×1, but that's just what the expanded form is.

For our non-American friends out there, the standard form is usually quite a different thing. Outside of the USA (especially in the UK), we say that a number is in its standard form if it's a single value that involves no arithmetic operations whatsoever. This notion is connected to the expanded form, and we explain it all in detail in the dedicated section. Also, note how you can switch between the two variants in the advanced section by choosing the appropriate option in the field " Have the calculator use..." Convert the volume directly to cubic feet unit. You may find this method easier, as you only need to divide or multiply once: Wolfram|Alpha is a great tool for calculating antiderivatives and definite integrals, double and triple integrals, and improper integrals. The Wolfram|Alpha Integral Calculator also shows plots, alternate forms and other relevant information to enhance your mathematical intuition. Non-Americans often refer to the standard form in math in connection with a very different topic. To be precise, they understand it as the basic way of writing numbers (with decimals) using the decimal base (as opposed to, say, the binary base), which we can decompose into terms representing the consecutive digits. the absolute value of n tells us how many places we have to move the point, and the sign of n indicates if it should be to the right (for n positive) or the left (for n negative). Therefore, converting to standard form is all about choosing the power of 10 in such a way that the b in the formula is between 1 and 10.

The sum we got can encourage us to go even further! After all, we can get 100, 10, 1, 0.1, and 0.01 by raising the number 10 to integer powers: to the power 2, 1, 0, -1, and -2, respectively. In other words, we can also write: For instance, take the number 154.37. It is in its standard form in the decimal base. That means 1 is the hundreds digit, 5 is that of tens, 4 of ones, 3 of tenths, and 7 of hundredths. Having the number written the way it is, makes us see it as a whole, and we don't really think of the individual digits, do we?