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.
Scientific notation gives you a compact, i.e., short, way of writing very large, or very small, numbers.
It makes very big or very small numbers more manageable.
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.
200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105
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
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.
It makes very big or very small numbers more manageable.
Less digits are needed as for example 1,000,000,000 is 1.0*109 in scientific 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.
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.
Anyone can use scientific notation - including women!
200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105
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
4000 in scientific notation is 4 x 103