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Correctly use a TI-83 Calculator involving Scientific Notation | Get your TI-83 from here: www.whitwellhigh.com/ti83.zip | Chemistry Whitwell High School UTC - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | www.whitwellhigh.com Instructor/Professor: Johnny Cantrell

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[Kiba0wolf]

if you change your calculator to Scientific Mode then your calculator gives you 7.75E7. You can skip all that division crap

[whitwellhigh]

@Kiba0wolf - you can use the Scientific Mode because the normal mode will default to scientific mode if the number is very large or small.

[TinnInches]

I may have confused myself with my initial question. The lesson you are providing within this video can only work if you are raising "10" to x power. Otherwise to raise, say 9, to x power, you would have to use the method that you say is taught to most students by math and science teachers incorrectly?

[whitwellhigh]

@TinnInches - I think I know what you are saying......in the video...I said that you could represent say 1.2 x 10^3 as 1.2 E 3.....is correct....but If you have to raise any other number to a different power you would just have to key it in as some number raised to the number x....(# ^x.....9 ^2 = 81.....then yes you would be correct....and yes...the incorrect method basically....see in science classes we use sci.notation a lot....but in math class they do not...so just use the number with (#^x)

[TinnInches]

What if the base is something other than 10. What would you do then? I'm guessing 2nd function, is only if the base is 10.

[whitwellhigh]

@TinnInches - well man...it would be a nasty process but not impossible....I would look up videos for converting to other bases...but essentially you do a lot of dividing using logs and remainders (decimals)......I am sure YouTube has tons of videos for it...Also, google would have tons of stuff on it as well :)

[tehsuperbro]

i used to calculate numbers like you, but then i took an error to the knee

[moon76d]

Very helpful thanks

[darknumber000]

This was very helpful, thanks!

[Adrianarox21]

need help how do you download the calculator from your site. PLease really need it!!!!!!

[Kiba0wolf]

@whitwellhigh sure

[coolkyle812]

Than You so much