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Why are extremely large and small numbers expressed in scientific notation than decimal notation?
Large Number & Small Number are Difficult to Write and Read,So a Method For Writing and Reading them More Easily This Calle Scientific notation ,To Computation make easy! :)))
A convenient way to writing very large or very small numbers is called?
Scientific Notation
What does 10 to the power of three mean?
A1 It means 1x103 = 1000 (three zeroes after the one) A2 To understand why this is so, the expression 'to the power of' just means that the number concerned is multiplied by itself the appropriate number of times. Thus '10 to the power of three' means 10 x 10 x 10 which equals 1000. Scientists often use this as a shorthand way of writing large numbers.
What is the way of writing very large numbers or small numbers in a short way?
Scientific notation. For example instead of writing 1,234,000,000,000 using scientific notation this number can be written as: 1.234 * 10 12 Conversely, a small number such as 0.0000056 can be written as: 5.6 * 10-6 Hope that helps.
How is scientific notation useful?
Scientific 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
