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scientific notation

NOUN
recording numbers in powers of ten
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“Atto” is the scientific notation prefix that represents 10-18, which is a decimal point followed by 17 zeroes and a 1.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2023

How can we convert from scientific notation to decimal form?

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

Measurements can be represented in either decimal or scientific notation.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

This will give you good practice with scientific notation, since the numbers involved are very large!

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

For very big or very small numbers, so-called scientific notation is often clearer and easier to work with than standard notation and I’ll therefore sometimes use it.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos



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