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Part 8:
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Formulae and Scientific Notation |
| You may have noticed that, when using a scientific calculator, your
answer sometimes looks like this: 1.23456 -05 or 1.23456-05 The calculator sometimes defaults automatically into what is called scientific notation or standard form for answers to calculations which are either very high or very low. A number appears in scientific notation when it is written in the form a × 10n where the number a must be between 1 and 10. Large Numbers - Powers of 10 You know that the power of a number tells you how many times that number is multiplying itself, for example: |
