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  2. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    Any real number can be written in the form m × 10 ^ n in many ways: for example, 350 can be written as 3.5 × 10 2 or 35 × 10 1 or 350 × 10 0. In normalized scientific notation (called "standard form" in the United Kingdom), the exponent n is chosen so that the absolute value of m remains at least one but less than ten (1 ≤ | m | < 10).

  3. Standard form - Wikipedia

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    Standard form may refer to a way of writing very large or very small numbers by comparing the powers of ten. It is also known as Scientific notation . Numbers in standard form are written in this format: a×10 n Where a is a number 1 ≤ a < 10 and n is an integer.

  4. Wikipedia : Guidance on applying the Manual of Style

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    Using a form of standard English used there means that an article is more likely to retain its style naturally – and a consistent style is easier for readers to follow. It is a good compromise to minimize style-related edit wars.

  5. Wikipedia:Non-breaking hyphen - Wikipedia

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    This essay explains use of the non-breaking hyphen character ā€‘, U+2011, coded by &#8209; or &#x2011;.Once displayed in a page, the non-breaking hyphen can be copied into words, or abbreviations, so they will not wrap at the hyphen character, such as an interstate highway symbol, "Iā€‘94", which would always wrap to the next line as a whole word.

  6. Military designation of days and hours - Wikipedia

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    Times relative to the designation are indicated with +/−[Arabic numeral] after the letter, replacing -day or -hour with a count of the same unit: "D−1" (the day before D-Day), "L+9" (9 hours after L-Hour) etc. [citation needed] In less formal contexts, the symbol or numeral may be spelled out: "D minus 1" or "L plus nine." [citation needed ...

  7. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen-minus symbol (-) is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash so it is also used for these. [27] The name hyphen-minus derives from the original ASCII standard, [28] where it was called hyphen–(minus). [29]

  8. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    st – standard part function. STP – [it is] sufficient to prove. SU – special unitary group. sup – supremum of a set. [1] (Also written as lub, which stands for least upper bound.) supp – support of a function. swish – swish function, an activation function in data analysis. Sym – symmetric group (Sym(n) is also written as S n) or ...

  9. Subscript and superscript - Wikipedia

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    Example of subscript and superscript. In each example the first "2" is professionally designed, and is included as part of the glyph set; the second "2" is a manual approximation using a small version of the standard "2". The visual weight of the first "2" matches the other characters better.