It makes very big or very small numbers more manageable.
Scientific notation gives you a compact, i.e., short, way of writing very large, or very small, numbers.
200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105
Scientific notation lets us express a large or a small number without having to write a lot of zeros before or after it. Try writing out 3 x 10^9000 without scientific notation.
Using scientific notation reduces the need to write out very large or very small numbers as the following examples show:- 1,000,000,000,000 = 1.0*1012 in scientific notation 0.0000000001 = 1.0*10-10 in scientific notation
The point of using scientific notation is to compute very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation gives you a compact, i.e., short, way of writing very large, or very small, numbers.
It is 5.60789*106, though by retaining almost all the digits, you lose some of the advantages of using scientific notation.
Less digits are needed as for example 1,000,000,000 is 1.0*109 in scientific notation
200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105
Anyone can use scientific notation - including women!
376000000000 in scientific notation is 3.76 × 1011Standard notation is 376,000,000,000Scientific notation (also called standard form or exponential notation) is a way of writing numbers that accommodates values too large or small to be conveniently written in standard decimal notation.
Scientific notation lets us express a large or a small number without having to write a lot of zeros before or after it. Try writing out 3 x 10^9000 without scientific notation.
Using scientific notation reduces the need to write out very large or very small numbers as the following examples show:- 1,000,000,000,000 = 1.0*1012 in scientific notation 0.0000000001 = 1.0*10-10 in scientific notation
The point of using scientific notation is to compute very large or very small numbers.
An example of doing this is here: 25,000 = 2.5 x 10 squared 4
0.0000072 in Scientific Notation = 7.2 x 10-6
375,000 in Scientific Notation = 3.75 x 105