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Re: "Proper" scientific notation
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: Jerome Epstein <
jerepst@worldnet.att.net
>
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: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 15:35:12 -0500
In reply to David Simmons:
Heck No. Stick to your guns. Ask them questions that test whether they
understand exponent form at all, no matter how expressed, e.g.:
2E7 is how many times bigger than 2E5?
2E7 is HOW MUCH bigger than 2E6 (That is, what is the difference)?
J. Epstein
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