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What is the purpose of scientific notation? How is scientific notation represented? Explain

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Scientific notation is used to represent very large and very small numbers. Scientific notation is the product of a coeffcient that is greater than or equal to one but less than 10, and a power of 10.

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User Lars Levie
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the purpose of scientific notation is to demonstrate very large or very small numbers, this is what it looks like, 7800000000000 in scientific notation would be 7.8*
10^(2) hope this helps
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