SOLUTION: What is the advantage of expressing a number in scientific notion over decimal notation?

Question 359219: What is the advantage of expressing a number in scientific notion over decimal notation?
Found 2 solutions by nyc_function, ewatrrr:
Answer by nyc_function(2741) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Scientific notation is a way to express very small or very large numbers.

Scientific notation has a number of useful rules and is often favored by

scientists, mathematicians and engineers, who work with such numbers everyday.

Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Hi,
the advantage of expressing a number in scientific notation?
Generally it is a simpler version than the decimal notation.
For ex
1,200,000,000,000.00 in decimal notation
1.2x10^12 says it more simply
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