Set: Significant Zeros and Scientific Notation

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What is significant?-All non zero digets by definition are said to be significant (only seros can be non-significant)
place holder zeros (leading zeros)not significant
embedded zeros(a zero or a group of zeros) are always significant (Ex. 9006 or 906)
trailing zerosare always significant
What is scientific notation based of of?-It is based of of the idea of working with multiples of tens.

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Creator emilybarnett
Created September 28, 2009
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Subject Science vocab
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