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The SI system is much easier to use when analyzing scientific data since conversions can be done very simply without having to remember ridiculous conversions with units in the American system like slugs, feet etc.

With the SI system the prefixes make converting any unit to another very easy. if you wanted to convert 4.13 in to miles you would need a calculator and have to know that there are 12 inches in a foot and 5280 feet in a mile, work out the dimensional analysis and come up with a slightly accurate number after losing much accuracy in your calculator, but with the si system, if you wanted to convert say .01241 mm to kilometers you just move the decimal place, in this case six places to the left. Giving .00000001241 km.

Scientific notation is handy when you have a very large or very small number like the answer to the last example, .00000001241 can be written in scientific notation as 1.2141 X 10^-8 meters

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