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.
An example of scientific notation is 1.3 Ã106 which is just a different way of expressing the standard notation of the number 1,300,000. Standard notation is the normal way of writing numbers. Key Vocabulary. mantissa = this is the integer or first digit in any Scientific Notation.