Definition of Scientific Notation



The numbers which are very big or very small are typically difficult to deal with. So, a system was introduced through which these numbers can be conveniently expressed in the form of decimals. This system is termed the scientific notation. It is also named as scientific form, standard index form, and standard form.

 


The arithmetic operations are easily simplified with the help of scientific notation and it is widely used by scientists, engineers and mathematicians, etc. The non-zero numbers are expressed in the form of m * 10n in the scientific notation. Here m is the non-zero number and n is the integer.

 

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