Standard Notation is where you take a number, say 10 to the fourth power and you turn it into its original number witch in this case is 10,000.
The manner in which numbers are normally written Ex. 187
2,000,000,000
In standard notation, this is written 2-3. This is equal to 1/8, or one eighth.
24there are four twos therefore the index number is 4 and two is because they are the same whole number