Concept
Scientific Notation
Quantitative Problem Solving in Natural Resources / Working with Numbers
"Scientific notation represents very large or very small quantities using a mantissa multiplied by a power of ten. It reduces the difficulty of writing and comparing long numbers and makes the number of significant figures more visible. The exponent also supports order-of-magnitude reasoning, which is useful for rough estimates and for judging the relative importance of quantities."
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