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Re-write the quantity 827,000,000,000,000 picoseconds to show: 4 sig. figs.

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One way of converting the number with lots of zeroes to a number with limited number of significant figures, is to convert them to scientific notation. The scientific notation with only 4 sig. figs. of the number above is 8.270 x 10^14.
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