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Question 548968: Sciencetific notation
Answer by mananth(16949) About Me  (Show Source):
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scientific notation
it is way of writing very large numbers
example
16000+=+1.6+%2A10000=+1.6+%2A10%5E4
Light travels at 300000 meters /s
that is written as 3*10^5 m/s
Distance between earth & Moon
assume 384000 km
3.84 * 10^5 km
The decimal point is put after one digit
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