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SCIENTIFIC NOTATION











                                  • Scientific notation (exponential notation) is a way of

                                       writing numbers that are too large or too small to be


                                       conveniently written in standard decimal notation.




                                  • Scientific is based on powers of 10




                                  • In scientific notation, numbers are written in the form:



                                                a x 10                 b      where the exponent b is an integer, and




                                                                              the coefficient a is real number (1 – 9)
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