Scientific notation is a short hand way of expressing numbers that are very large or very small such as 10,000,000 = 1.0*107 or 0.0000001 = 1.0*10-7
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0.0000034 2460000000 these are not in scientific notation
Physicist, chemist, biologists, and doctors all use scientific notation.
0.002378 in scientific notation is 2.378 X 10 ^(-3); some write it as: 2.378E-3
Nothing is measured in scientific notation. Scientific notation is used merely to represent the result of some measurement - especially when that outcome is a very small or a very large number.
because some numbers are tooo big for the screen so the calculator puts it in scientific notation form