0.00010 written in scientific notation is 1.0 * 10^-4.
Scientific notation refer to the standard manner of writing numbers that are too small or that are too big in such a way that it will be convenient to involve them in calculations and also easier to compare them. Another name for scientific notation is standard form. The format of scientific notation is Z * 10^a, where Z can be any number between 1 and 9 and a is an integer, which can be positive or negative. For the number given in the question, the number of zeros at the back of 1 is counted [there are four zeros] and this number is written as an index of 10. A negative sign is added to the number because of the decimal point in the figure.
