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You move the decimal left or right until you end up with one digit in front of the decimal. Then, if you had to move the decimal to the left to get this number, you will have ten to the positive power of the number of decimal places moved.

If you had to move the decimal to the right to get the number, you will have ten to the negative power of the number of decimal places moved.

In this example, 5217000000 = 5.217 x 109

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