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Scientific Notation
Scientific notation is the expression of a number based on the largest exponent of 10 for its value, where the form is a decimal number A x 10n.
6,389 Questions
What is the answer for the scientific notation for 0.000387?
0.000387 = 3.87*10-4 in scientific notation or standard form
How do you get the scientific notation of 324 500 000?
It is: 3.245*108 which means that the decimal point must be moved 8 places to the right to get back to 324,500,000
How do you convert 5 870 000 000 to scientific notation?
5.87*109 by moving the decimal point 9 places to the left and multiplying it by 10 to the power of 9
How do you write nine ten-thousandths in standard form?
Nine ten-thousandths (0.0009) in standard form is 9.0 × 10-4
Why would you use scientific notation?
Scientific notation is a way of writing really huge, or really tiny, numbers that saves time and space and ink, etc. For example, the World Book Encyclopedia lists the Earth's mass as
6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms.
Why write such an unwieldy number when you can, instead, write
6.0 x 1024 kg.
The classical radius of an electron is
0.0000000000000028179 meters.
Again, why write such a space wasting number when you can write it like so:
2.8179 x 10-15m
What is the scientific notation of 876000000?
It can be written (in scientific notation) as 8.76x108.
How do you do 0.07882 in scientific notation?
0.07882 can be written in scientific notation as 7.882x10-2.
