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Obviously, if you wanted to express 500,000 in Scientific Notation, you would get:
5 x 10^5
My question is, what if you were asked to express 570,098?
Move the decimal 5 places to the left, and you'd get 5.70098. Apply Scientific Notation, and you get
5.70098 x 10^5
However, this expression actually contains MORE numbers than the original number, which is not the goal of Scientific Notation.
So is SN just for expressing approximations of large numbers? Should I have rounded 570,098 to 570,000?
Thanks a lot.
5 x 10^5
My question is, what if you were asked to express 570,098?
Move the decimal 5 places to the left, and you'd get 5.70098. Apply Scientific Notation, and you get
5.70098 x 10^5
However, this expression actually contains MORE numbers than the original number, which is not the goal of Scientific Notation.
So is SN just for expressing approximations of large numbers? Should I have rounded 570,098 to 570,000?
Thanks a lot.
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