Scientific Notation

9 x 10^-4

4.25 x 10-4

0.00000017 = 1.7 x 10-7

It is: 4.32*104

6.7x10^0

7.3 x 10^-2

1.58 x 10^1

2.93e2 or 2.93 x 102

6.59 x 105

6.59000 x 105

3.5*101 ml.

4.07369 = 4.07369 × 100

3.5 x 108 = 350,000,000

You use scientific notation when it comes to "too large" or "too small" numbers. The reasons why using scientific notation is useful are that it saves time to do the computation and also that it makes people's life easier to compute values instead of writing them out completely!

1.42 x 103

or

1.42 * 10^3

5.1x1026 or 5.1e+26

0.000062 in Scientific Notation = 6.2 x 10-5

It is: 4.3*10^4

2000+400+70+8

0023 in Scientific Notation = 0.023 x 103

1.4 * 105

1.0*10-5

6.7 x 10^2

7e-4 or 7 x 10^-4

3.21 x 10^11