What is the difference between Scientific Notation and Engineering Notation for expressing numbers ?
Both of them are the common forms of powers of 10 notation.
Scientific notation is expressing any number in the form of power of 10.
For eg. 1) 3510 can be written in the scientific notation as 3.5X103
2) 0.000000819 can be written in the scientific notation as 8.19X10-7
Positive powers of 10 are used to indicate the numbers greater than 1 and negative powers are used to indicate the numbers less than 1.
Engineering Notation is similar to scientific notation except that in Engineering notation, the powers of 10 are always multiples of 3 such as 103, 106, 109, 10-610-9, 10-12 etc.
Metric Prefixes : Metric Prefix is the name given to the powers of 10 used in Engineering Notation. In Electronics, these metric prefixes are used more commonly to express the values of current, resistance, voltage, power etc.
The SI prefixes are listed below
Both of them are the common forms of powers of 10 notation.
Scientific notation is expressing any number in the form of power of 10.
For eg. 1) 3510 can be written in the scientific notation as 3.5X103
2) 0.000000819 can be written in the scientific notation as 8.19X10-7
Positive powers of 10 are used to indicate the numbers greater than 1 and negative powers are used to indicate the numbers less than 1.
Engineering Notation is similar to scientific notation except that in Engineering notation, the powers of 10 are always multiples of 3 such as 103, 106, 109, 10-610-9, 10-12 etc.
Metric Prefixes : Metric Prefix is the name given to the powers of 10 used in Engineering Notation. In Electronics, these metric prefixes are used more commonly to express the values of current, resistance, voltage, power etc.
The SI prefixes are listed below
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