Scientific notation numbers may be written in different forms. One of the decimal places changed the numerator from 65 to 6.5.Ī fraction smaller than 1 can be converted to scientific notation by decreasing the power of ten by one for each decimal place the denominator is decreased by. The fraction 65/1000000 written in scientific notation would be 6.5×10 -5 because the denominator was decreased by 6 decimal places. The fraction 6/1000000 written in scientific notation would be 6×10 -6 because the denominator was decreased by 6 decimal places.
The number has one digit to the left of the decimal point. A number of scientific notation is written as the product of a number (integer or decimal) and a power of 10. Scientific notation is used to express very large or very small numbers. Converting Fractions to Scientific Notation