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    The document discusses why standard form is useful when dealing with very large or very small numbers, which are common in science and engineering work. It would save time to use standard form instead of writing out long strings of zeros when working with things like particle sizes, bank accounts, virus contamination levels, or distances in outer space.

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    Standard Form

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    The document discusses why standard form is useful when dealing with very large or very small numbers, which are common in science and engineering work. It would save time to use standard form instead of writing out long strings of zeros when working with things like particle sizes, bank accounts, virus contamination levels, or distances in outer space.

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    The document discusses why standard form is useful when dealing with very large or very small numbers, which are common in science and engineering work. It would save time to use standard form instead of writing out long strings of zeros when working with things like particle sizes, bank accounts, virus contamination levels, or distances in outer space.

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    Standard Form

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    Sarah Srh
    The document discusses why standard form is useful when dealing with very large or very small numbers, which are common in science and engineering work. It would save time to use standard form instead of writing out long strings of zeros when working with things like particle sizes, bank accounts, virus contamination levels, or distances in outer space.

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    SARAH, SHELLY, SHAFINA (4SA)

    WHY USE IT?


    Because it makes it easier when you are dealing with
    very big or very small numbers, which are common in
    Scientific and Engineering work.
    It can also make calculations easier and used a lot in
    science



    IT WOULD SAVE TIME:


    If you work in a technical occupation and deal with
    particles that are very small that are used in
    semiconductors they would often be expressed as 10 to
    some plus or minus number.

    If you worked in a bank and had to count large bills and
    accounts it could be 1 x 10^ 6 for every million dollars in
    the vault for example.


    If you worked in the medical profession and had to deal with
    contamination of a virus or finding
    the purity of water with so many parts per million. The
    reduction and use of powers of 10 would be convenient.
    Instead of hitting the zero button on your calculator many
    times with pencil or finger the power calculation would
    definitely save time.

    Especially if you went into outer space and had to count
    stars.
    Or make estimates of particle infiltration in the breathing
    mechanisms in use.

    These include examples that in real life, the number is
    very very large or small. Often it is not practical or
    available to store so many digits and a short and
    approximated value is more suited.

    An example of this is with microcomputer chip
    storage. During a program instead of using up
    memory spaces with a unreasonable amount of bits
    the microprocessor will use standard form in order
    to save space and time during processing.


    An abstract way of using standard form in real life
    could be as follows. Instead of saying I am
    1,828.80 millimeters tall you use a more standard
    form of 6 feet. 6 feet really is about 6 x 10^4. Using
    different units is an abstract way to do this. In
    mathematics the example can be translated at
    kilometer = 1x10^ -1, meter = 1x10^0, centimeter =
    1x10^1, millimeter = 1x10^2.....
    Units translate large/small numbers to a more
    standard form.

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