In the case of large values, it avoids the use of large numbers of trailing zeros or of long strings of non-zero digits when that level of accuracy is not required or simply spurious. Similarly, in the case of very small numbers, it avoids the use of large numbers of leading zeros. The long string of zeros makes it difficult to quickly judge orders of magnitudes and also helps avoid errors.
When numbers are tremendously large or small.
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 is used to express numbers that are very large or very small in a compact and standardized way. It consists of a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10. This notation helps to simplify calculations and make comparisons between numbers easier. It also allows for expressing extremely large or small values without having to write out all the zeros.
When numbers are tremendously large or small.
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 is used to express numbers that are very large or very small in a compact and standardized way. It consists of a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10. This notation helps to simplify calculations and make comparisons between numbers easier. It also allows for expressing extremely large or small values without having to write out all the zeros.
Scientific notation
When dealing with very large numbers or very small numbers where a relatively small number of significant figures are required.
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.
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!