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Re: [Phys-l] scientific notation

curtis osterhoudt wrote:
[Brian] For Scientific notation for example,
my touchstone is this equation:
[AnyNumber]^0 = 1

For me, it is not difficult to spring from 10^0 = 1 to this: 10^-1 = 1/10

>From this spring board, you will probably agree that 1.0 X 10^-1 = 1.0 X 1/10

Brian W
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[Curtis]
Where AnyNumber != 0. There was a recent argument bouncing here and
there through the MathGroup mailing list about this. .....
Here's a plausible progression.....
10 ^1 = 10
10^0.1 = 1.26...
10^0.01 = 1.02...
10^0.001 = 1.00...
10^ 0.0001 = 1.000...
10^0.00001 = 1.0000...

It is CERTAINLY possible to conclude
10^0.000.... = undefined.

...but wouldn't a person who is SciNotation -blind find it helpful to consider that
10^0.00000.... = 1.00000.....
which even a bunch of argumentative academics
with math pretensions would concede is true? :-)

BrianW