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Scientific notation is defined by Webster's Dictionary as a "system in which numbers are expressed as products consisting of a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by an appropriate power of 10." Examples are listed below for converting laboratory results expressed in scientific notation into whole numbers.

Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4

100 = 1 101 = 10 102 = 100 103 = 1,000 104 = 10,000 105 = 100,000 106 = 1,000,000 107 = 10,000,000 108 = 100,000,000 109 = 1,000,000,000 1010 = 10,000,000,000 etc...