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Standard Procedure for Negative Exponents

A Quality Assurance Technician is documenting a component's thickness, which is listed as $4.8 \times 10^{-3}$ centimeters. According to the standard procedure for converting from scientific notation to decimal form, what is the specific rule for the direction and the number of places the decimal point should move when the exponent is negative?

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