Eli5: what is “E”? I find it used in numbers that are mind bogglingly large, but I don’t know what it really means.

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Eli5: what is “E”? I find it used in numbers that are mind bogglingly large, but I don’t know what it really means.

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Simple answer:
E is the number of zeroes after the number
5E0 means no zero added so it’s only 5
5E1 means one zero added so it’s 50

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