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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It’s called scientific notation. For really large numbers, we can notate them as a number multiplied by 10 raised to whatever exponent is needed. So for instance instead of writing out 563,000,000,000,000,000 every time, we can shorten it to 5.63 × 10^17. “E” just replaces the “× 10” part. So 5.63E17.
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