Although this answer is perfectly fine, most commonly the base, or the 5.76e-06, is written as a number with just one digit to the left of the decimal.
To format your number in this way, we'll multiply the 0.00000576 by 10, 6 time(s), making it a 5.76. We do this, because each multiplication by 10 moves the decimal point to the right one digit. But in order to keep our number the same number, we must have a × 10⁻⁶ next to the 5.76.
So, the final answer is 5.76 × 10⁻⁶.
Scientific Notation (also called Standard Form in Britain) is a special way of writing numbers:
Scientific Notation via kwout
How does it work?
Scientific Notation via kwout
Both 700 and 7 × 102 have the same value, just shown in different ways.
Scientific notation is a compact way of writing very large and very small numbers. Webmath.com will show you how to convert between writing numbers in scientific notation and in "regular" , or from "regular" to scientific notation.