Understanding Powers of Ten

3,887 views · Published 29 August 2017 · 6:16 · Indexed 7 October 2026

Channel: Launch Pad Astronomy · 2017 · Education

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Space is big. Really big. That's why we use Powers of Ten and Scientific Notation so we can describe very large (and very small!) numbers easily. We can use Powers of Ten to express very large numbers without accidentally dropping a zero.

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