SARAH, SHELLY, SHAFINA (4SA)

WHY USE IT?

Because it makes it easier when you are dealing with
very big or very small numbers, which are common in
Scientific and Engineering work.
It can also make calculations easier and used a lot in
science



IT WOULD SAVE TIME:


If you work in a technical occupation and deal with
particles that are very small that are used in
semiconductors they would often be expressed as 10 to
some plus or minus number.

If you worked in a bank and had to count large bills and
accounts it could be 1 x 10^ 6 for every million dollars in
the vault for example.


If you worked in the medical profession and had to deal with
contamination of a virus or finding
the purity of water with so many parts per million. The
reduction and use of powers of 10 would be convenient.
Instead of hitting the zero button on your calculator many
times with pencil or finger the power calculation would
definitely save time.

Especially if you went into outer space and had to count
stars.
Or make estimates of particle infiltration in the breathing
mechanisms in use.

These include examples that in real life, the number is
very very large or small. Often it is not practical or
available to store so many digits and a short and
approximated value is more suited.

An example of this is with microcomputer chip
storage. During a program instead of using up
memory spaces with a unreasonable amount of bits
the microprocessor will use standard form in order
to save space and time during processing.


An abstract way of using standard form in real life
could be as follows. Instead of saying I am
1,828.80 millimeters tall you use a more standard
form of 6 feet. 6 feet really is about 6 x 10^4. Using
different units is an abstract way to do this. In
mathematics the example can be translated at
kilometer = 1x10^ -1, meter = 1x10^0, centimeter =
1x10^1, millimeter = 1x10^2.....
Units translate large/small numbers to a more
standard form.