Scientific notation doesn't exactly have a lot of steps, but I will discuss how it is done. Let us say, you want to convert the number 1,300,000,000 to scientific notation. First, count the number of digits. It turns out to be a ten digit number. Then we observe that the first two digits are not zeroes. So in scientific notation this turns out to be 1.3 x 109. This works out, because we are taking a 1 digit number with another number past the decimal point, 1.3, and then adding another 9 zeroes by use of the term 109 which thereby gives us the equivalent of the original ten digit number that we started with.
Scientific notation is a way of representing numbers, usually very large or very small, in the form
a*10^b where 1<= |a| < 10 is a decimal number and b is an integer (negative or positive).
a is called the mantissa and b is called the exponent.
To convert a number to scientific notation:
For example:
23045.06 becomes 2.304506*10^4
-23045.06 becomes -2.304506*10^4
0.00023004 becomes 2.3004*10^(-4)
To convert a number in scientific notation to normal form:
For example:
4.56*10^5 = 456000.
-4.56*10^5 = -456000.
4.56*10^(-5) = 0.0000456
I have avoided using the term "Standard form" because, ironically, it is a non-standard term. In the UK Standard and Scientific forms are the same whereas in the US, the Standard form is what I have chosen to call the normal form.
Scientific notation is a way of representing numbers, usually very large or very small, in the form a*10^b where 1 ≤ |a| < 10 is a decimal number and b is an integer (negative or positive). a is called the mantissa and b is called the exponent. To convert a number to scientific notation: · If the number has no decimal point, then add one at the end. · Then move the decimal point to just after the first digit while counting the number of places you have moved it. · The mantissa of the new number, formed after moving the decimal point is a. · If the original number is negative, then so is a. · The number of places to the left that the decimal point was moved is b. If it was moved to the right, then b is negative.
Scientific notation is a way of representing numbers, usually very large or very small, in the form a*10^b where 1 ≤ |a| < 10 is a decimal number and b is an integer (negative or positive). a is called the mantissa and b is called the exponent. To convert a number in scientific notation to normal form:
· If b is positive, move the decimal point b places to the right in the number a – adding 0s at the end of the number, if required. · If b is negative, move the decimal point b places to the left in the number a – adding 0s immediately after the decimal point, if required. · The final expression has the same sign (+ or -) as a in the scientific form. For example: 4.56*10^5 = 456000. -4.56*10^5 = -456000. 4.56*10^-5 = 0.0000456
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Scientist follow the scientific method for solving problems.
Yes. They do.
It's not any unique set of steps ... its just that the steps MUST be specified so that other people can verify your work.
There is no true opposite of scientific notation, but the closest answer is Standard Notation.
The steps, in order, will depend on what you wish to do: convert from normal to scientific notation, the converse, perform one of the basic operations of arithmetic on numbers in scientific notation.
Scientific notation is not a problem that needs to be "solved".
6 x 10-3.
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Scientific Method.
There are not seven steps unless you start counting steps like "pick up pen"! Three steps is all that it takes.
Scientist follow the scientific method for solving problems.
Scientific Method
The answer depends on which steps you consider to be the first three. The sequence can vary.
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Yes. They do.
It's not any unique set of steps ... its just that the steps MUST be specified so that other people can verify your work.