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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 a way to make these numbers easier to work with. In scientific notation, you move the decimal place until you have a number between 1 and 10. Then you add a power of ten that tells how many places you moved the decimal. In scientific notation, 2,890,000,000 becomes 2.89 x 10 9.