Monday, March 29, 2010

Writing in Scientific Notation

There are many times in which writing a large number over and over can be very tedious. Scientist got sick of writing 93,955,807 miles every time that wanted to say the distance between the Earth and Sun. So scientific notation was created. It also works for very small numbers as well.

Here is a short video in which it shows the process of putting numbers into scientific notation.

1 comment:

  1. Well, I just spent 15 minutes watching videos from IgniteLearning, so I'd say that was a good find! :)

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