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How do you convert 3.00 x 10^8 meters/second to miles per hour? Confused about the 10^8

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10^8 just makes it easier to write out big numbers. It makes it so you don't have to keep writing out the really long number over and over.
If you were wondering.
3.0 * 10^8=300,000,000.0
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