Scientific notation, also called pattern or notation in exponential form, is a way of writing numbers that accommodate values too large (100000000000) or small (0.00000000001) to be written in a conventional manner.
The use of this notation is based on powers of 104
Example:
Big numbers:
[tex]100000000000 = 1 * 10 ^ {11}
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Small numbers:
[tex]0.00000000001 = 1 * 10 ^{-11} [/tex]
However, in areas such as physics and chemistry, scientific notation is important to make approximations such as:
mass of a proton
mass of an electron and others.
