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For scientific notation, when i move the decimal to the left the the exponent get bigger or smaller?

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I'm not sure what you mean. Besides, I feel like you're talking math.
But anyways, if you have 120 let's say
The scientific notation is 1.20 × 10^2
if you have 125000
the scientific notation is 1.25 × 10^ 5
The number of times you go left the decimal, I guess exponent increases
So yea
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