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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

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What are all the ways you can write 0.018 in scientific notation?

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.


What is 200000 using scientific notation?

200,000 in Scientific Notation = 2 x 105


Who is the man that using scientific notation?

Anyone can use scientific notation - including women!


What is the purpose for using scientific notation in scientific?

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


What is the point of using scientific notation?

The point of using scientific notation is to compute very large or very small numbers.


How do you write 4000 using scientific notation?

4000 in scientific notation is 4 x 103


0.0000072 using scientific notation?

0.0000072 in Scientific Notation = 7.2 x 10-6


How do you abbreviate 375000 using the scientific notation?

375,000 in Scientific Notation = 3.75 x 105


What is the measurement of 0.000.004.3 m using scientific notation?

0,000,004.3 in Scientific Notation = 4.3E-06 x 106


What is 600.00001 in scientific notation?

600.00001 = 6.0000001 x 10^2 but there is no benefit in writing this way.


What is a method of writing very large or very small numbers by using powers of 10?

scientific notation


What is the disadvantage of using scientific notation?

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).