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standard notation and scientific notation For example: 126,000 is standard notation. 1.26X105 is scientific notation.
Scientific notation is a special way of writing larger numbers that can be easily handled by scientists.
Scientific notation is a convenient tool for writing very large or very small numbers.
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4,000,000 in Scientific Notation = 4 x 106
Scientific notation is a way to signify really long numbers without writing it out in full, all 50 digits. 1,000,000,000 in scientific notation is 1.00 X 109
64 can be written as 6.40 × 101 in scientific notation.
Scientific notation gives a compact notation, which is especially useful for writing down - and doing calculations with - very large, and very small, numbers.
Scientific notation - is simply 'shortening' a number - and raising it to a power. For example - instead of writing 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 - the scientific notation equivalent would be 1019 - which saves a lot of space !
When writing 673/5 in scientific notation it should look like 6.735 * 10^2.
it is important to us to use scientific notation because if we use it we can read the numbers easily. Scientific notation is important because it make writing numbers easier. For example, you are contestant in a quiz bee and the examiner says,134000000000000x500000000000 or something like that you will lost time writing zeroes and you will also confused about it instead we can just write it in a scientific notation.
2.068 x 10^3