A few days ago
Anonymous

Scientific Notation with a negative base????

The negative base throws me off completely. I’ve done searches and can’t find a thing. Any help would be great. Thanks.

-2.2×10^-5

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A few days ago
Memories

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it means to go to the left how many decimal places. Positive goes right. In this case, you will have -0.000022
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A few days ago
jedd c
That is the same as 1/(-2.2×10^5)
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