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Re: "Proper" scientific notation



Lacl of comprehension of order of operations is EXTREMELY common,as my
diagnostic test has shown.
Try on your students: 2*2^n + 3*2^n

See how many get things like 10^n or other variants.
The percent at many schools and in many classes that get this wrong is
quite high, often a majority.
J. Epstein