Scientific notation provides a compact and clear way to express very large and very small numbers.
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The difference of writing 1000000000000 or 1x10^12
To compute very large or very small numbers.
it is important to us to use scientific notation because if we use it we can read the numbers easily. Scientific notation is important because it make writing numbers easier. For example, you are contestant in a quiz bee and the examiner says,134000000000000x500000000000 or something like that you will lost time writing zeroes and you will also confused about it instead we can just write it in a scientific notation.
It is 8.9*10^-5 in scientific notation
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