What information does the electronic configuration of an atom provide?

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Electronic configuration gives the information regarding the manner in which electrons in an atom occupy the shells, sub shells and orbitals of that atom.

The short hand notation - nl^x - consists of principal energy level (n), the letter representing sub level (l) like s,p,d,or f and number of electrons in that sub level are written as superscript (x). example of hydrogen is given below-

What information does the electronic configuration of an atom provide?

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