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But there's more! We have multiplication and division in the formula, and the standard form exponents make these two operations very easy to calculate. By the well-known, well-remembered, and totally not forgotten the moment the test was over formulas, multiplying two powers with the same base is the same as adding the exponents, while dividing corresponds to subtracting them. In other words, if we separate the 10s to some powers from the other numbers, we'll get: It can readily characterize both very large and very small numbers. Examples of scientific notation: 3,500,000 = 3.5 × 10 6; 0.0000425 = 4.25 × 10 -5. Before we give some examples of writing numbers in standard form in physics or chemistry, let's recall from the above section the standard form math formula:

There is a valuable lesson here: writing numbers in standard form is not always the way to go. It's all about simplicity of notation, but, at the end of the day, it pretty much boils down to a matter of personal preference (or your teacher's if you're writing a test). Suppose that you've taken up astronomy recently and would like to know the gravitational force acting between the Earth and the Moon. For the calculations, we need the masses of the two objects (denote the Earth's by M₁ and the Moon's by M₂) and the distance between them (denoted by R). We have: It is often easier to work with simplified fractions. As such, fraction solutions are commonly expressed in their simplified forms. 220 Now that we've seen how to write a number in standard form, it's time to convince you that it's a useful thing to do. Of course, we know that you're most probably learning all of this for the pure pleasure of grasping yet another part of theoretical mathematics, but it doesn't hurt to take a look at physics or chemistry from time to time. You know, those two minor branches of mathematics.This time, we indeed see the digits as the first factors in each multiplication. Moreover, the second factors have a lot in common - they consist of a single 1 with some zeros (possibly none). For our non-American friends out there, the standard form is usually quite a different thing. Outside of the USA (especially in the UK), we say that a number is in its standard form if it's a single value that involves no arithmetic operations whatsoever. This notion is connected to the expanded form, and we explain it all in detail in the dedicated section. Also, note how you can switch between the two variants in the advanced section by choosing the appropriate option in the field " Have the calculator use..." Where a fraction equals zero, its numerator, the part which is above the fraction line, must equal zero. When a is a fraction, this essentially involves exchanging the position of the numerator and the denominator. The reciprocal of the fraction 3

Combine the numerators together, put the sum or difference over the common denominator then reduce to lowest terms if possible: x - (10 • 2) x - 20 Now, on the left hand side, the 2 cancels out the denominator, while, on the right hand side, zero times anything is still zero. Don't ask us how they found the mass of the Earth, as there isn't any scale big enough to weigh the entire planet. As for the circumference, talk to Eratosthenes. the numerator is 3, and the denominator is 8. A more illustrative example could involve a pie with 8 slices. 1 of those 8 slices would constitute the numerator of a fraction, while the total of 8 slices that comprises the whole pie would be the denominator. If a person were to eat 3 slices, the remaining fraction of the pie would therefore be 5Now, this looks even worse than the previous example; it doesn't have commas in between! Thankfully, there are tools - like our standard form calculator - to make our lives easier. So, what is the standard form of the above numbers? Scientific notion, which is also referred to as "Standard Form" or "Exponential Form", represents a numerical value that is recorded in the following form:

Non-Americans often refer to the standard form in math in connection with a very different topic. To be precise, they understand it as the basic way of writing numbers (with decimals) using the decimal base (as opposed to, say, the binary base), which we can decompose into terms representing the consecutive digits. which is the number we had initially but with the point two places to the right. This movement by 2 is shown by the power in the standard form exponents. As you can see, we had five digits, so we got five terms. What is more, consecutive digits appear in consecutive summands; we simply add a few zeros in the correct places to make it all jump to the right spot when we add it all up. Common denominator : The equivalent fraction and the other fraction involved in the calculation share the same denominator Adding fractions that have a common denominator :

0.5 as a fraction equals 5/10 or 1/2.

Now, this is more like it! We don't know about you, but for us, short is beautiful, in mathematics at least. This process can be used for any number of fractions. Just multiply the numerators and denominators of each fraction in the problem by the product of the denominators of all the other fractions (not including its own respective denominator) in the problem. EX: Still, we might wish to decompose it even further. After all, we wanted to see the digits themselves (i.e., as one-digit numbers) and not some " complicated" expression like 0.07. Therefore, we can also write: We've spent quite some time together with the standard form calculator, enough to know that we can't leave the answer like this. We haven't learned how to write a number in standard form for nothing.