Saturday, February 04, 2006

Addition and Scientific Notation

How do you add numbers written in scientific notation?

What is the total of: 8.2x103+9.3x104+0.07x10-3?

(Ignore significant figures)

Writing this out in traditional notation:

8200+93000+0.00007=101200.00007

In scientific notation this is: 1.0120000007x105.

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