First, you move the decimal to have only one place to the left of the decimal.
Examples:
For 84020000 it would become 8.402
For 0.00021 it would become 2.1
Then you multiply by 10. The 10 is raised to the power of how many times you moved the decimal. If you moved the decimal to the left, you use a positive exponent. If you moved it to the right, it would be a negative exponent.
Using the examples above, you would have:
8.402 x 107
2.1 x 10-4
Scientific notation is required for very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation is applied wherever numbers are very large or very small.
Such small numbers aren't usually expressed in scientific notation but it is: 1.84*101
Scientific notation is used to compute very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation
Scientific notation is required for very large or very small numbers.
Scientists use scientific notation to compute very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation is used when dealing with very small or very large numbers.
Scientific notation is applied wherever numbers are very large or very small.
Scientific notation makes very large or very small numbers easier to work with.
Scientific notation is a convenient tool for writing very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation is used to compute very large or very small numbers.
Such small numbers aren't usually expressed in scientific notation but it is: 1.84*101
Scientific notation is used to compute very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation is used when numbers are very large or very small as for example 1,000,000,000,000 is 1.0*10^12 in scientific notation
Scientific notation
Scientific notation is the way that scientists easily handle very large numbers or very small numbers so i guess non scientific notation is the opposite.