scientific notation

“Atto” is the scientific notation prefix that represents 10-18, which is a decimal point followed by 17 zeroes and a 1.

You could also write that in scientific notation as 3x10³⁵, but sometimes it’s nice to write out all the digits as a reminder of how mind-bogglingly large these numbers are.

Do they understand scientific notation?

The radius of the earth is about 3,963 miles, so we will need to get really comfortable with scientific notation to start expressing everyday measurements in terms of Radii.

The language of mathematics, grounded in scientific notation, logarithms and orders of magnitude, allows us to grapple with the cosmos where words fall short, explains Burrows.