this week math i learned new thing that’s scientific notation-large Numbers
The new lesson I learned this week was about scientific notation, which is used to write numbers that are either very large or very small. I didn’t have any prior knowledge about this topic in previous math classes, so this was the first time I realized that there are ways to represent numbers composed of many zeros more easily and concisely. In this post, I want to explain it to you.
As I mentioned, practical numbers are those where most of the digits are zeros, or the number of digits is so large that it may be difficult for anyone to read them all and assign a unit. For example, the easiest number is 1, which has no tens, no hundreds, and none above that. However, numbers like 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) are numbers that are not easy to read, and separating them into groups of three digits may not always be practical. Therefore, to make this number easier and shorter, we can use powers , ten and decimal numbers.
The way to use powers of ten and decimal numbers to represent a large number, especially one where the digit zero is most frequently repeated, in a shorter and more easily readable form is as follows: First, we focus on the given number. For example, the number 34,000,000,000 is not easy to read or count the zeros. Therefore, we need to write this number in a more concise form. In this number, 3 and 4 are the main digits that define the identity of the number. So, to choose the decimal number, we use 3.4.Then, we need to multiply it by 10 and write the number of zeros in the exponent for 10.
By doing this, we can indicate the number of zeros in front of that number based on the exponent we used for 10.
We write 34,000,000,000 in this form:
3.4×1010=34000,000,000
The exponent for 10 represents how many places the decimal point needs to be moved to get back to the original number. For example, in 3.4×10103.4 \times 10.{10}3.4×1010, the decimal point moves 10 places to the right, which effectively adds 9 zeros after the 34 (not 10 zeros).
Some of the applications of these numbers in science and engineering to represent astronomical distances and microscopic sizes.
Statistics for displaying populations and big data.
Numerical calculations to simplify calculations
these are the some of the info from the scientific notation numbers i learend this week
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