what are everyday examples of scientific notation?
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Some examples of measurements where scientific notation becomes useful follow.\n\nThe wavelength for violet light is 40-millionths of a centimeter 4 × 10-5cm. \nSome black holes are measured by the amount of solar masses they could contain. One black hole was measured as 10,000,000 or 1.0 × 107 solar masses. \nThe weight of an alpha particle, which is emitted in the radioactive decay of Plutonium-239, is 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,006,6 45 kilograms (6.645 × 10-27 kilograms). \nA computer hard disk could hold 4 gigabytes (about 4,000,000,000 bytes) of information. That is 4.0 × 109 bytes. \nComputer calculation speeds are often measured in nanoseconds. A nanosecond is 0.000000001 seconds, or 1.0 × 10-9 seconds.
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Two hundred quattuordecillions\n\nCan be written using scientific notation as 2.0 x 10^47
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Just a few examples -\n\nAncient Greeks and modern surveyors use(d) them to measure areas and determine boundaries of land;\n\nEngineers use them  for many things, such as determining how thick a bunch of pieces of wood need to be to hold up a roof, how much force will it take to move along an incline, reducing the power consumption of a refrigerator or motors....\n\nEngineering computer programs convert models of solid objects entered by a user into meshes of triangles and then are capable of predicting its properties, such as how strong it will be, what will heat flow look like through it, what magnetic or electrostatic fields will be produced if a voltage is applied to it, etc.\n\nGPS satellite receivers use them to determine exactly where they are in relation to satellites orbiting hundreds of miles away.\n\nI used them at work recently to help me design a wireless external battery charger for a medical implant device that will one day let parapelegics walk again.
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im not sure if this is the answer, but it ringed this bell...\n\nnormal number:   7500000000\nscientific notation: 75 x 10 elevated to 8\n\nnormal number:   .000015\nscientific notation:  15 x 10 elevated to -6\n\nwich is basicly just make a complicated or long number simple by writing it being multiplicated by a ten elevated the number of spaces you took. (zeros mostly)\n\nnormal number: .000015\nto make it a simple number, lets say 15, we have to get rid of the other zeroes, so we count how many spaces between where the dot is, and where it should be to make the number a 15. so its 6, in that case we have 000015. x 10 elevated to -6\nbut we dont write the zeroes on the left, so its only 15 elevated to -6, its important to know that in this case its a minus six, because you are going to move the dot to the left and make it a very small number.\n\nI really hoped that was what you asked, lol\nif not, then just ignore this :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_and_fictitious_large_numbers\n\nlook at that
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This is generally used for answering or solving problems.\nFor example if you do something like:\n4sin^2(theta)-9cos^2(theta)=(2sin(theta)+3cos(theta))(2sin(theta)-3cos(theta)) \nYou may write "Using x^2-y^2=(x+y)(x-y)"\nHope this helps...
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umm none that im aware of, what kind of mathamatics leval are you looking at?
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The notation 's', 'p', 'd', and 'f' originate from a now-discredited system of categorizing spectral lines.\n\ns= sharp\np= principal\nd= diffuse\nf= fundamental
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The others are correct:  3x is one such example.\n\nIf you want to be pedantic about it, there are an infinite number of functions that fulfill this.  Just add any constant:\ny=3x+c.
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Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.\nIn some countries its BEDMAS, where E is exponents.
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modern algebra is used in all scientific fields on almost a daily basis.  Its used everyday by the financial world in calculating interest and money values.  its used by the social sciences to study trends with society. A cashier at a store uses it when she rings up your order (the machine does it for them in most cases) Its basically used by everyone, everyday.
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see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NaturalLogarithm.html
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the way you communicate to one another using algebraic symbols?
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A lot of scientific calculators have these functions, like the TI-30 or TI-36.
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Yes, that is scientific notation format. It is the number 48,000 stated as "4.8 times 10 to the fourth power."\n\n4.8 is called the coefficient; 10 is the base, which in the scientific and mathematic communities is always 10, and 4 is the exponent.\n\nThe exponent is usually offset as a superscript next to the base ten when writing this expression. However, in programming calculations there needs to be an character to indicate the exponentiation. That character is usually a carat, although I've also seen double asterisks.
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Microsoft Excel supports both scientific notation and the engineering notation variant.\n\nEnter a number such as 12,345,678 in a cell\nSelect the cell\nSelect menu bar "Format > Cells ... > Number".\nFor scientific notation, select "Scientific" and select the number of digits of precision (say 3) and the number will reformat as 1.23E+07.\n\nFor engineering notation, select "Custom" and find the format that looks like ##0.00E+00.  The number will reformat to 12.34E+06. Engineering notation traditionally formats numbers with exponents that are multiples of 3 corresponding to thousands, millions, billions, etc.\n\nI don't know of a way to select an arbitrary constant for the exponent.  Try reading the Microsoft help.
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Case 1: symbols sometimes used for the micrometer (micron). The symbol um is acceptable in situations where the Greek letter mu (µ) is not available to make the proper symbol µm. However, the "plural" symbol ums is never acceptable, because the SI prohibits adding -s to a symbol to form a plural.\nSource:- http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictU.html\n----------------\nCase2:  The symbol μ (Greek: mu) is used to denote the arithmetic mean of an entire population. Or, for a random number that has a defined mean, μ is the probabilistic mean or expected value of the random number.\nSource:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean\n------------------------\nThe lower-case letter mu is used as a special symbol in many academic fields. The upper case Mu isn't generally used in this way because it is normally indistinguishable from the Latin M.\n\n    * In mathematics:\n          - the Möbius function in number theory\n          - the population mean or expected value in probability and statistics\n          - a measure in measure theory \n    * In measurement:\n          - the SI prefix micro-, which represents one millionth, or 10E-6 Unicode actually encodes the micro sign separately from the Greek letter though they look identical in most fonts.\n          - the micron, an old unit which corresponds to the micrometre (which is now denoted "µm") \n    * In classical physics and engineering:\n          - the coefficient of friction\n          - reduced mass in the two-body problem\n          - permeability in electromagnetism\n          - dynamic viscosity in fluid mechanics \n    * In particle physics:\n          - the elementary particle called the muon\nSource:- http://www.answers.com/topic/mu-2