Question

can someone please explain scientific notation?

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Answer 1

Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small to be written in decimal form.

Answer 2

Can you explain it in a bit more detail?

Answer 3

sure, https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-numbers-operations/cc-8th-scientific-notation/v/scientific-notation watch this video its really helpful

Answer 4

you write 10 to the power of something

for example 10^3 means you shift the decimal 3 places to the right

10^-4 means shifting it 4 places to the left.

so for example you could write 430 as 4.3*10^2

and 0.002 as 2*10^-3