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Scientific notation is very important to modern society because of the practicality it provides to people working with these numbers. Scientists, engineers and chemists are just a few examples of people who regularly use scientific notation in modern day society.
Of course, you can use other bases besides 2 when writing numbers with exponents. In fact, you can use any number you want for the base. Of particular interest to us right nowâsince weâre interested in understanding scientific notationâis what happens when we use the number 10 as the base.