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Scientific notation is beneficial because it allows people to save a considerable amount of space/time in writing numbers.

For example, instead of writing 98500000000000000000000000000000000000000, you can just write 9.85 x 1040. This is also helpful for those reading these numbers. A reader doesn't have to count each number to find out how large it is since the size is expressed in scientific notation.

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∙ 13y ago

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