Fill in the blanks (please be carful with the spelling; help yourself reading about exponential form on page 61) Consider any nonzero decimal number A. We can write A uniquely as a number M times a power of A=M10n, where the decimal point appears directly in front of the first digit in M. This is called the normalized exponential form of A. The number M is called the of A, and the exponent n is called the exponent. We note that M