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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.
Scientific notation is used primarily in *science* for expressing certain quantities such as the mass of a particle or the amount of force exerted. This is different from engineering notation (similar to scientific notation, except the exponents are multiples of 3 to allow for common SI prefixes).