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how do you write a number really big without tiring out your hand, ya dig say it’s a trillion that’s 1 and 12 zeros 1 million million, I aint writin that out bro easy way to do it everyone from every nation uses it, it’s called Scientific Notation let’s start with a number like 110 look for the decimal, it’s at the end move the decimal to the left a certain number of spaces until there’s one space left, that’s two places now you got 1.10 not done yet add a x 10 with an exponent exponents gonna be number of places you moved in this case that’s gonna be two now you got 1.10 x 102 drop off the zero, make it easier to write dude yeah that Scientific Notation, call it SyNote got about 100,000,000,000,000 cells in the human body or 1.0 x 1014 sun is 92,955,807 miles away write in SyNote, make it easier to say find the decimal, move it to the left that’s seven places, till there’s one left round the decimal to 9.3 cuz it’s easier than writing out 9.2955807 use SyNote so it doesn’t take an hour 9.3 x 107 SyNote also used for really tiny numbers so writing them out doesn’t take the rest of the summer virus of the common cold is 0.00000003 meters bro move the decimal to the right this time 8 places come on man don’t be blind got 3.0 x 10-8 easier to write now man SyNote is great in your computer you got a processor with a width of 0.000000065 m, or 6.5 x 10-8 you’re using it right now sign of the exponent easy to remember simple rule to use beginning this September large number sign is positive small number sign is negative SyNote uses x 10 with an exponent as an easy way to rewrite is what I meant whether big or small it’s for amounts that are extreme check all your work, keep the math clean population of US is 3 x 108 fraction of the world can you estimate total is about 7 x 109 dude first 7 divided by three is about 2 divide the exponents by subtracting 9 minus 8 is 1 is exactly that’s how you do it to get 101 now you got 2 x 10 or 20 son one human chromosome contains about 220,000,000 base pairs, or 2.2 x 108 an E.coli bacteria is 0.000002 m long, or 2.0 x 10-6 the distance to Mars is 78,000,000,000 m or 7.8 x 1010 for numbers that are really large, or small gotta use that SyNote
