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Scientific notation uses short-hand for long numbers, writing the numbers in a standard form of a decimal number greater or equal to 1 and less than 10 multiplied by a power of 10, whereas ordinary notation just writes the number as one would every number. It helps to avoid errors when there could be a lot of zeros and makes the writing of numbers more compact.. As an example, 573,000,000,000,000 would be written as 5.73 x 10^14.
This also allows numbers to be rounded as necessary without a bunch of 0s. For example, 573,261,578,357,198 to three significant figures would be 573,000,000,000,000 which would be written as 5.73 x 10^14 (as above).
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How does scientific notation differ from ordinary notations?
Ordinary notation is where the numbers are laid, or written out. Scientific notation is a short handed version with numbers that indicate the amount of zeroes behind the end of the numbers.
What is scientific notation opposite of?
Ordinary decimal notation
Why do scientific notation needs computing?
For the same reason that numbers in ordinary notation need computing.
Why do you write ordinary numbers to scientific notation?
This provides a convenient and compact way to write very large or very small numbers.
How do you convert 0.000089 into scientific notation?
It is 8.9*10^-5 in scientific notation
