It reduces extremely large numbers to a more manageable format. For example, instead of writing 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion), you would express it as: 1 x 10^14 or 1E14
The benefit of scientific notation is that a number can only be written one way when using it. 0.018 is written as 1.8 * 10-2.
200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105
Using scientific notation reduces the need to write out very large or very small numbers as the following examples show:- 1,000,000,000,000 = 1.0*1012 in scientific notation 0.0000000001 = 1.0*10-10 in scientific notation
The point of using scientific notation is to compute very large or very small numbers.
0.0000072 in Scientific Notation = 7.2 x 10-6
The benefit of scientific notation is that a number can only be written one way when using it. 0.018 is written as 1.8 * 10-2.
200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105
Anyone can use scientific notation - including women!
Using scientific notation reduces the need to write out very large or very small numbers as the following examples show:- 1,000,000,000,000 = 1.0*1012 in scientific notation 0.0000000001 = 1.0*10-10 in scientific notation
The point of using scientific notation is to compute very large or very small numbers.
4000 in scientific notation is 4 x 103
0.0000072 in Scientific Notation = 7.2 x 10-6
375,000 in Scientific Notation = 3.75 x 105
0,000,004.3 in Scientific Notation = 4.3E-06 x 106
600.00001 = 6.0000001 x 10^2 but there is no benefit in writing this way.
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If you are adding or subtracting two numbers in scientific notation, you must rewrite one of the numbers to the same power of ten as the other, before performing the addition (or subtraction).