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All scientific notation does. For example, if you have 600,000, then scientific notation would read 6*10^5, and the 5 tells you to move the decimal point to the left five numbers. And if you have 0.00006 it would read 6*10^-5, and the -5 tells you to move the decimal point to the right five numbers.

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