SCIENTIFICNOTATION

Scientific notation

Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form. Scientific notation has a number of useful properties and is commonly used in calculators and by scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

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scientific notation

Noun

  1. a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10
  2. an alternative format of such a decimal number immediately followed by E and an integer
    The number 0.00236 is written in scientific notation as 2.36×10−3 or as 2.36E-3.


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