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How is a scientific notation used in the real world?

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Scientists use it a lot to express values and sizes of very tiny and very large things, like micro-organisms or sizes of planets. 
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To calculate the size of super small or super large objects, like microscopic bacteria or the distance from Earth to the Sun
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