Answer:
To convert a regular number to scientific notation, we first rewrite it as a decimal, then multiply it by a power of
10. There is an infinite number of ways to do this for any given number, but we always prefer the one that has only
a single digit in front of the decimal point.
For example, we could write the number “1879” in any of the following ways:
1879 = 0.01879 × 100,000 = 0.01879 × 105
= 0.1879 × 10,000 = 0.1879 × 104
= 1.879 × 1000 = 1.879 × 103 (THIS ONE IS BEST… do you see why?)
= 18.79 × 100 = 18.79 × 102
= 187.9 × 10 = 187.9 × 101
= 1879 × 1 = 1879 × 100
= 18,790 × 0.1 = 18,790 × 10–1
= 187,900 × 0.01 = 187,900 × 10–2
= 1,879,000 × 0.001 = 1,879,000 × 10–3 ...and so forth.
So, if we convert 1000000 to exponential form the answer will be 10^6
