Show how converting numbers to scientific notation can help you decide which digits are significant.
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Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that involves expressing them as a product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10. For example, the number 123,000 can be written in scientific notation as 1.23 x 10^5. Show more…
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