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Standard form is the form you want.

100 = 1, 101 = 10, 102 = 100, 103 = 1000 etc

Therefore if you want to write 300000000 in standard form it is 3 x 108

The same thing applies to decimals -

10-1 = 0.1, 10-2 = 0.01, 10-3 = 0.001 etc

Therefore if you want to write 0.0000004 in standard form it is 4 x 10-7

Note, that the number you multiply the power of ten to must be between 0 and 10 for example -

45600000 CANNOT be written as 456 x 105 but MUST be written as 4.56 x 107

also 0.00000345 CANNOT be written as 345 x 10-9 but MUST be written as 3.45 x 10-7.

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