Scientific Notation

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SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

There is a mathematical scientific notation which is very useful for writing very big and very small numbers.

25,300,000,000,000 MILES

MOVE -13 to the left side to get the decimal point

2.53X10(13)

0.000,000,0203 SECONDS

MOVE - 8 to get the decimal point

2.03X10 (-8)

Exponent move move exponent

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goes up left right goes down

1. 0.004 = (4. x 10 °3 )

2. 0.000000000000123= (1.23 10°-16)

3. 452000000000000 =( 4.52 x 10°14)

4. 6982540000000000000 =( 698254 x 10° 2)

5. 3.28 x 10 to the 8 =( 32800,000)

6. -5.13 x 10°6 = 5130000

7. 9.49 x 10°2 =

8. -0.0763= 7.63 X 10°2

9. 9110 = 9.11X 1°3

10. - 4.66 x 10 °4= = 46600

11. 9.01 x 10°3 = 9010

12. 0.598 = -5.98 x 10°-1

13. 1.73 x 10°3 = 1730

14. -137000= - 1.37 x 10°5