“There are five fundamental operations in mathematics,” the German mathematician Martin Eichler supposedly said. “Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modular forms.” Part of the joke, ...

A number written in standard form is presented as A x 10 n, where A is a number bigger than or equal to 1 and less than 10. n can be any positive or negative whole number. So, \(34 \times 10^7\) is ...