Scientific Notation
Scientific Notation
Scientific Notation
“One Trillion”:
1,000,000,000,000
“One Google”:
10000000000000000000000000000000000
0
00000000000000000000000000000000000
0
0000000000000000000000000
Wait, wait…
How about one-google times three-google?
3000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000
Wait, wait……what about really really small
numbers?
three-hundreths: .03
4000000000 = 4 • 1000000000
Much
easier = 4 • 10 9
!
Try some: Scientific Notation ?
400000000000 = 4 • 100000000000 = 4 • 1011
Calculate it !!
That is
Scientific 3.45 • 10
7
Notation !
How to do it.
Count how many places you move the
decimal until you get next to the last digit.
45600000000000
That is your power of 10
Now put a decimal next to the number, and write
any other non-zero numbers, and times it by the
power of ten you counted.
4.56 • 10 13
What about really really small numbers ?
5.6 • 10 -13
REVIEW
To change numbers from scientific notation
to regular ….
if the power of ten is positive, just move the
decimal to the left to make it a big number.
Type in :
.00000000000056
4.5 106
= 7.6 • 10-2