They can be, particularly if you are primarily interested in an order of magnitude.
Scientific notation is useful in economics to compute very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation is useful in mathematics because it makes very large or very small numbers easier to compute.
Scientific notation tends to be useful any time you have to deal with either very large numbers or very small numbers.
When numbers are tremendously large or small.
Scientific notation
Scientific notation is useful in economics to compute very large or very small numbers.
Scientific notation is useful in mathematics because it makes very large or very small numbers easier to compute.
Scientific notation tends to be useful any time you have to deal with either very large numbers or very small numbers.
Scientific notation
When numbers are tremendously large or small.
Scientific notation gives a compact notation, which is especially useful for writing down - and doing calculations with - very large, and very small, numbers.
Yes, that's exactly the case for using scientific notation.
Very very small numbers as for example 0.00000078 = 7.8*10^-7 in scientific notation
Scientific notation is especially useful if you use very large numbers, or very small numbers (numbers close to zero). I am not sure whether biologists commonly use such numbers, though.
It is a way of representing numbers which is particularly useful for very small or very large numbers.
You use scientific notation when it comes to "too large" or "too small" numbers. The reasons why using scientific notation is useful are that it saves time to do the computation and also that it makes people's life easier to compute values instead of writing them out completely!
Scientific notation is useful for very large or very small numbers. If you use such numbers in your "real world", then scientific notation will be very useful. This may be the case, for example, when you work in science or engineering. Otherwise, if you don't work in an area that uses such large or small numbers, you probably won't find much use for them.