Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Scientific notation

Scientific notation: 

Scientific notation is a way of representing a very large number or a very small numbers in the form of shorthand. It is developed for saving time by using less characters. This adjustment is based on the power of base ten.Scientific characters provides a place to hold the zeroes that appear after a whole number or  a fraction.

The followings are scientific notation examples.
Fraction = 1/100
Decimal = 0.01
Scientific notation = 10-2
Fraction = 1/10
Decimal = 0.1
Scientific notation = 10-1
Number = 1
Scientific notation = 100
Number = 10
Scientific notation =101
Number = 100
Scientific notation = 102
Number = 1000
Scientific notation = 103


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