Why is scientific notation used?

Chemistry

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Setler [38]2 years ago

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The correct option is (d) To express very large or very small number.

What is the Scientific Notation?

Scientific notation is a way to present numbers that are too large or too small to be easily written in decimal form. The three components of scientific notation are coefficient, base and exponent. The proper format to write a scientific notation is a x 10^b, where a is a number or decimal number and b is the power of 10 to make scientific notation equivalent to original number. When a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10 then the number is expressed in scientific notation. For example, 10000000 can be written as 10⁷, which is the scientific notation and the exponent is positive here. Similarly, for the negative exponent 0.000001 can be can be represented as 10-⁷. Hence, the scientific notation is used to express very large or very small numbers.

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