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A technical documentation specialist is updating a manual for an engineering firm. The manual specifies that all large measurements must be written in scientific notation using the cross symbol (imes imes) for multiplication (e.g., $3.5 imes 10^4$). According to the standard rules for this notation, why is the cross symbol typically used here even though it is avoided in most other algebraic contexts?

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