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Question 180142: I have been asked to answer this question in algebra this week and I am at a total loss as to what the advantage is. Any help would be appreciated
Describe one advantage of expressing a number in scientific notation over decimal notation Found 2 solutions by Mathtut, stanbon:Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Scientific Notation was developed in order to easily represent numbers that are either very large or very small.
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That in a nutshell is the advantage.
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so instead of
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.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0213
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we have
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Advantage: condensed notation.
Example: 1,000,000,000 = 1x10^9
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Stan H.
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