Research topic: scientific notation

scientific notation means of expressing very large or very small numbers in a compact form that is easy to use in computations. In this notation, any number is expressed as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10 that indicates the correct position of the decimal point in the original number; numbers greater than 10 are expressed by positive powers of 10 and numbers less than 1 are expressed by negative powers of 10 (see exponent ). For example, 43,700 is written in scientific notation as 4.37 × 10 4 and 0.00526 as 5.26 × 10 -3 . The larger the converted number,... Read more