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Summarize why a scientist measuring a diameter of an atom or the distance to the moon would use scientific notation.
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Summarize why a scientist measuring a diameter of an atom or the distance to the moon would use scientific notation.

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A scientist using ordinary decimal notation would have to write the diameter of, say, a helium atom as 0.000 000 000 062 m and the distance to the moon as 340 000 000 m.There would be way too much zeros to write
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