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.
You can also write scientific notation as decimal notation. For example, the number of miles that light travels in a year is 5.88 x 1012, and a hydrogen atom has a diameter of 5 x 10-8mm. To write each of these numbers in decimal notation, you move the decimal point the same number of places as the exponent.