Monday, August 30, 2010

Standard form

What is Standard Form:
It is a is a way of writing down very large or very small numbers basically. 10³ = 1000, so 4 x 10³ = 4000. So 4000 can be written as 4 × 10³. To write larger numbers standard form is used. Small numbers may even be written in standard form.

Example:
Write 50 400 000 000 000 in standard form: 50 400 000 000 000 = 5.04 × 1013
It’s 1013 because the decimal point has been moved 13 places to the left to get the number to be 5.04

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