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  2. Fraction - Wikipedia

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    Multiply both sides by the power of 10 just great enough (in this case 10 4) to move the decimal point just before the repeating part of the decimal number: 10,000x = 1,523. 987; Multiply both sides by the power of 10 (in this case 10 3) that is the same as the number of places that repeat: 10,000,000x = 1,523,987. 987

  3. Exponentiation - Wikipedia

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    In the base ten number system, integer powers of 10 are written as the digit 1 followed or preceded by a number of zeroes determined by the sign and magnitude of the exponent. For example, 10 3 = 1000 and 10 −4 = 0.0001. Exponentiation with base 10 is used in scientific notation to denote large or small numbers.

  4. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Visualisation of powers of 10 from one to 1 trillion. In mathematics, a power of 10 is any of the integer powers of the number ten; in other words, ten multiplied by itself a certain number of times (when the power is a positive integer). By definition, the number one is a power (the zeroth power) of ten. The first few non-negative powers of ...

  5. Category:Powers of ten - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Powers of ten" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 100,000; 1,000,000;

  6. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    Because superscript exponents like 10 7 can be inconvenient to display or type, the letter "E" or "e" (for "exponent") is often used to represent "times ten raised to the power of", so that the notation m E n for a decimal significand m and integer exponent n means the same as m × 10 n. For example 6.022 × 10 23 is written as 6.022E23 or 6 ...

  7. Clearing denominators - Wikipedia

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    The result is an equation with no fractions. The simplified equation is not entirely equivalent to the original. For when we substitute y = 0 and z = 0 in the last equation, both sides simplify to 0, so we get 0 = 0, a mathematical truth.

  8. Difference of two squares - Wikipedia

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    A simple example is the Fermat factorization method, which considers the sequence of numbers :=, for := ⌈ ⌉ +. If one of the x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} equals a perfect square b 2 {\displaystyle b^{2}} , then N = a i 2 − b 2 = ( a i + b ) ( a i − b ) {\displaystyle N=a_{i}^{2}-b^{2}=(a_{i}+b)(a_{i}-b)} is a (potentially non-trivial ...

  9. Solving quadratic equations with continued fractions - Wikipedia

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    If this infinite continued fraction converges at all, it must converge to one of the roots of the monic polynomial x 2 + bx + c = 0. Unfortunately, this particular continued fraction does not converge to a finite number in every case. We can easily see that this is so by considering the quadratic formula and a monic polynomial with real ...