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Writing large or very small numbers in scientific notation helps prevent simple mistakes.
For example, in physics or chemistry, the number of basic particles in one mole of a substance is Avogadro's number, which is 602214129000000000000000 or 6.02214129*1023 in scientific notation. In the expanded form it would be quite easy to miscount the number of zeros.
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Explain advantages of using scientific notation?
Scientific notation gives you a compact, i.e., short, way of writing very large, or very small, numbers.
What are the advantages of using scientific notation?
It makes very big or very small numbers more manageable.
What is 200000 using scientific notation?
200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105
What are the advantages of using scientific notation to express very large and very small numbers?
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.
What is the purpose for using scientific notation in scientific?
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
