Scientific notation is used in physics and astronomy to represent extremely large or small numbers efficiently.
Scientific notation is a method used in physics and astronomy to represent very large or very small numbers by expressing them as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10. For the number 51,170,890,000, in scientific notation, it would be written as 5.117 x 10^10.
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