Scientific notation

• scientific notation (or scientific form or standard index form, or standard form)
  • numbers are written n the form $m\times 10^n$, where:
    • $m\in \mathbb{R}$ (significand (or mantissa ¹))
    • $n\in \mathbb{Z}$ (exponent)

Footnotes

1. The term mantissa can also refer to the fractional part of the logarithm result. ↩