These concepts are especially useful when comparing very large and very small measurements such as the weight of an atom , the distance to a star, or the length of a tiny, microscopic ocean dweller. Notice that each of the numerals is multiplied by a power of ten. The toolbar file there is the one you want to copy over to Windows at the location shown in the next section. Scientific notation follows naturally from our base-ten system as a shorthand way to write very large or very small numbers. The process described above is only for the customizable toolbar.
The second part is a multiple of ten expressed using an exponent here, 10 8. Because our system was influenced by developments of the Indians and Arabs, it is called the Hindu-Arabic system. For the example shown below, you can use the keyboard sequence Alt , E , Alt to choose the Clear command from the Edit menu. You're a geometry teacher and use the "parallel to" symbol almost daily. To rewrite 4,,, years in scientific notation we must express it as a decimal between one and ten.
