its probably supposed to be 2 time 10 to the 7th power
2 x 10^7
This is yet another example of the phenomenon of media trust... If you KNOW the topic, you can see the media are clueless... which should make you suspect their level of understanding of anythign else they report
If you write software, and you read an article about it often it is is ridiculously lame. This is true if you are a roofer and you read an article about roofing, or a painter, or an engineer, etc. etc.
So true.
I have no experience with Pa S so 1 Pa S or 2 billion Pa S means the same to me.
I have no doubt the author and his editor (if he has one) have no inkling how to use scientific notation.