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Usually when you're dealing with large numbers. It's much quicker (for example) to write 1012 instead of 1,000,000,000,000

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Sometimes. Scientific notation is used to express very small or very large numbers. If the problem does not involve any such numbers then there is no need for scientific notation.


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