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