I keep it short: 2.3E+12 is: 'two point three to the twelfth'
2.3E-12 would be: two point three to the MINUS twelfth
I attended some lectures about physics and maths at the Berkeley University of California, and the professors always pronounced it like that. It's the short form of "x to the yth power"
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27 Oct. 2010