Jessica Mitchell

Scientific notation was created to make a more simple way for those using or working with extremely large or extremely small numbers more convenient. Scientific notation is essential in the realm of numbers and measurement to make calculations more accurate. Scientific notation consists of a whole number or a decimal and also follows with a smaller number to the top right called a exponent. Exponents are telling you have many times to multiple the number by itself to thus reach a much larger or much smaller number. An example of standard to scientific notation would look bit like this. Standard being: $380000000$ and the scientific being: $3\mathrm{.}8{10}^{{?}^{{?}^{?}}}8.$

Scientific notation is not used much in the day to day with the average person. Scientific notation is used more for scientists $($hence the scientific portion$).$ The day to day person uses standard numbers and measurements for day to day things such as taking a temperature or weighing yourself in the morning and even cooking food. Autonomists can tell us how many billions of trillions of miles away the planets and stars are, engineers design large buildings and bridges and need to ensure the correct size and materials needed. Those who study physics or biology would use scientific notation daily.

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