http://netvouz.com/pdboyer/tag/exponential?feed=rss pdboyer's bookmarks tagged "exponential" on Netvouz http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-scnot.html Scientific notation is the way that scientists easily handle very large numbers or very small numbers. For example, instead of writing 0.0000000056, we write 5.6 x 10^-9. So, how does this work? We can think of 5.6 x 10^-9 as the product of two numbers: 5.6 (the digit term) and 10^-9 (the exponential term). Here are some examples of scientific notation. pdboyer Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:05:48 GMT