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When you abbreviate very large or very small numbers, you are using scientific notation. This method expresses numbers as a product of a coefficient and a power of ten, making it easier to read and work with extreme values. For example, 1,000 can be written as (1 \times 10^3), while 0.001 can be written as (1 \times 10^{-3}).