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This document provides an overview of writing large and small numbers in standard form, also known as scientific notation. It explains how to express numbers using powers of 10, with examples for both large and small values. The document includes worked examples and tips for correctly placing the decimal point in standard form.

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This document provides an overview of writing large and small numbers in standard form, also known as scientific notation. It explains how to express numbers using powers of 10, with examples for both large and small values. The document includes worked examples and tips for correctly placing the decimal point in standard form.

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1 Number and calculation

1.2 Standard form


In this section you will … Key words
• learn to write large and small numbers in standard form. scientific notation
standard form
Look at these numbers
4.67 ×10 = 46.7
Tip

E
4.67 ×10 2 = 467
4.67 ×103 = 4670 4.67 × 102 is the
4.67 ×106 = 4 670 000 same as
4.67 × 100 or
You can use powers of 10 in this way to write large numbers. For 4.67 × 10 × 10

4.67 ×10 −1 = 0.467


4.67 ×10 −2 = 0.0467
−3
4.67 ×10 = 0.004 67
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example, the average distance to the Sun is 149 600 000 km. You can
write this as 1.496 × 108 km. This is called standard form. You write a
number in standard form as a × 10n where 1 ⩽ a < 10 and n is an integer.
You can write small numbers in a similar way, using negative integer
powers of 10. For example:
Tip
Think of 4.67 × 10−1
as 4.67 ÷ 10
M
4.67 ×10 −7 = 0.000 004 67
Small numbers occur often in science. For example, the time for light to
Tip
travel 5 metres is 0.000 000 017 seconds. In standard form, you can write
this as 1.7 ×10 −8 seconds. Standard form is
also sometimes
SA

Worked example 1.2 called scientific


notation.
Write these numbers in standard form.
a 256 million    b 25.6 billion    c 0.000 025 6

Answer
Tip
a 1 million = 1 000 000 or 10 6
Notice that in
So 256 million = 256 000 000 = 2.56 × 108 every case the
b 1 billion = 1 000 000 000 or 109 decimal point
So 25.6 billion = 25 600 000 000 = 2.56 × 1010 is placed after
the 2, the first
c 0.000 025 6 = 2.56 × 10−5 non-zero digit.

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