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

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
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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) About Me  (Show Source):
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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