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    Scientific Notation Is A Way of Writing Numbers That Is Often Used by Scientists and

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    Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or small numbers using exponents and decimals. It expresses numbers as a decimal multiplied by a power of 10. This makes unwieldy numbers with many zeros easier to work with. Scientific notation is normalized such that the significand or mantissa is between 1 and 10. This allows easy comparison of similarly signed numbers. Scientific notation is widely used by scientists, engineers, and others working with very large or small quantities, as it avoids writing out long strings of zeros and reduces errors from losing count.

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    Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or small numbers using exponents and decimals. It expresses numbers as a decimal multiplied by a power of 10. This makes unwieldy numbers with many zeros easier to work with. Scientific notation is normalized such that the significand or mantissa is between 1 and 10. This allows easy comparison of similarly signed numbers. Scientific notation is widely used by scientists, engineers, and others working with very large or small quantities, as it avoids writing out long strings of zeros and reduces errors from losing count.

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    Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or small numbers using exponents and decimals. It expresses numbers as a decimal multiplied by a power of 10. This makes unwieldy numbers with many zeros easier to work with. Scientific notation is normalized such that the significand or mantissa is between 1 and 10. This allows easy comparison of similarly signed numbers. Scientific notation is widely used by scientists, engineers, and others working with very large or small quantities, as it avoids writing out long strings of zeros and reduces errors from losing count.

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    Scientific Notation Is A Way of Writing Numbers That Is Often Used by Scientists and

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    Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or small numbers using exponents and decimals. It expresses numbers as a decimal multiplied by a power of 10. This makes unwieldy numbers with many zeros easier to work with. Scientific notation is normalized such that the significand or mantissa is between 1 and 10. This allows easy comparison of similarly signed numbers. Scientific notation is widely used by scientists, engineers, and others working with very large or small quantities, as it avoids writing out long strings of zeros and reduces errors from losing count.

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    JAYANNAH MARIA I.

    ARANDIA

    Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that is often used by scientists and
    mathematicians to make it easier to write large and small numbers. A number that
    is written in scientific notation has several properties that make it very useful to local
    scientists. It makes very large numbers into smaller numbers using decimals and
    exponents.

    Variations

    The basic idea of scientific notation is to express zeros as a power of ten. The
    notation for this can be written as : where b is an integer, or "whole"
    number, that describes the number of times 10 is multiplied by itself and the letter
    a any real number, called the significand or mantissa (using "mantissa" may cause
    confusion as it can also refer to the fractional part of the common logarithm).

    Normalized notation

    Written in the form a × 10b, exponent b is chosen such that the absolute value of a
    remains at least one but less than ten . Normal mathematics
    convention dictates a minus sign to precede the first of the decimal digits of a for a
    negative number; that of b for a number with absolute value between 0 and 1, e.g.
    minus one half is -5 × 10-1. There is no need to represent zero in normalized form,
    the digit 0 is sufficient. The normalized form allows easy comparison of two numbers
    of the same sign in a, as the exponent b gives the number's order of magnitude.

    Scientific notation is used for expressing large quantities, such as the speed of
    light, or very small quantities, such as the surface area of an atom. Scientific
    notation is much more practical to use in writing and calculation because it saves
    you the tedious time involved in writing a succession of zero’s. It also helps to
    prevent a mistake in miscounting that can occur when you are trying to keep track
    of a large amount of zero’s.
    Scientific notation is very important to modern society because of the practicality it
    provides to people working with these numbers. Scientists, engineers and chemists
    are just a few examples of people who regularly use scientific notation in modern
    day society. Comment: Practical uses of scientific notation are used anytime that
    you want to express a number that is big or even small. It is much easier to read
    than a number that has 14 zeros before or after a decimal point. Counting too many
    zeros would really get confusing and sometimes get lost in between, thereby
    leading to inaccuracies. This allows scientists and other people who work with very
    big and very small numbers to handle them without having to write down a lot of
    digits. Astronomers use it when measuring distances to other stars and galaxies.
    Geologists may use it to measure the age of rocks. In modern day society, the
    scientific notation is good for scientists, mathematicians, and engineers to use big
    or small numbers.

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