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The idea is to save page space and time. Instead of writing out a 1 followed by 100 zeros for a Google (which would take up a long time and a lot of space) you simply write 10^100.

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It can, depending on the values being manipulated, also facilitate arithmetic by turning multiplying or dividing the powers into adding or subtracting the indices (the principle of the logarithm).

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