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When you have a number raised to a negative exponent, you move to the left rather than the right in decimal places.

E.g.

103 = 1000

10-3 = 0.001

More specifically, when you have a negative exponent, you are taking the reciprocal of what the positive exponent would give.

24 = 16, but 2-4=(1/16) ■

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