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how do you add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers written in scientific notation

 Jan 31, 2017
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Scientific Notation is just an other way to write a number with a 10^x. U can add, subtract, multiply, divide this number as every other normal numbers, as the value doesnt change.

F.x. 1.2 * 10^3 is a scientific notation of the number 1200. 

 

This is really helpful when numbers get large or have many decimals, specialy in physics.

 Jan 31, 2017

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