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Quality Audit: Standard Operating Procedure for Measurement Conversion

During a quality assurance audit of your laboratory's documentation system, you are asked to demonstrate the standard operating procedure for converting scientific notation to decimal form for digital entry. For the specific measurement of 8.9×1028.9 \times 10^{-2}, recall and describe the three-step procedure used to convert this value into its standard decimal form. In your response, ensure you identify the exponent, describe the direction and magnitude of the decimal point shift, and provide the final verified decimal result.

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