To prevent the transmission of MRSA, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers can do the following things: 1  Clean their hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub before and after touching the patient or the patientâs environment.
Scientific notation (also referred to as scientific form, standard form or standard index form) is a way of expressing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form. It is commonly used by scientists, mathematicians and engineers, in part because it can simplify certain arithmetic operations.
The second number is called the base and in scientific notation must always be 10. In the number 1.23 x 108 the number 8 is the exponent or power of ten.   How to Write a Number in Scientific Notation For large numbers: 1) Put the decimal after the first digit and drop the zeroes.