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.
Next, count the number of spaces it moved, and that number will be the exponent. It will be negative in this case because the number is smaller than 1. So, 0.002598 written in scientific notation is 2.598 x 10^-3. Let's try an example going the other way: