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when a number is written in scientific notation how can you tell right away wether or not it is greater than one or equal to 1?
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when a number is written in scientific notation how can you tell right away wether or not it is greater than one or equal to 1?

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Okay so see in example one how the 10 to the third power is negative. Any negative power is always less than one. A positive power(like in example 2) will always be positive
when a number is written in scientific notation how can you tell right away wether-example-1
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