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becasue it is shorter to write.

ex. 1400000000000000 or 1.4x10^14 By definition, scientific notation is a way of writing numbers in terms of decimal number between 1 and 10 times a power of 10.Scientific notation is very important for calculations. It makes it much more easier to write out equations.

For example instead of writing:

1000000000000 x 1000000000000000000000000000000

you can write:

10 to the power of 12 x 10 to the power of 30. Get it?

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