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You simply take the number of digits less one as the power, convert the number to a decimal between 0 and 10 and then note this decimal x 10 to the power calculated previously.

e.g.

1,000,000 in scientific notation is 1.0 x 106

123,000,000 in scientific notation is 1.23 x 108

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