Scientific Notation on Calculator

Numbers can sometimes be too large or too small to be expressed normally. If you’re working on a problem involving the weight of the earth or the size of an atom, writing down or entering several zeroes in a calculator is inconvenient at best.

Writing scientific notation is one of the easiest ways of expressing extremely large and infinitesimally small numbers. For instance, you can express 0.0000000027 as 2.7 x 10-9.

You can enter a scientific notation on scientific calculators. Every scientific calculator is also capable of outputting scientific notations per the rules of significant figures.

Here’s a short guide on how to do scientific notation on scientific calculators.

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This is one of the things in science I encounter now and then but too lazy to search for what it means... I just put the mode to express in full numbers and count the zeroes myself on my calculator. 😂 Thank you for making this video!💛