Concept — Compact representation of numbers and comparison by powers of ten.
Present in chapters
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Linked atoms
13 linked atoms.
00 Grandezze fisiche, stime, equilibrio
- Worked exercise — Bananas to feed the Italian population
- Worked exercise — The halved lead cube
- Worked exercise — A giant car park for every car in the world
- Scientific notation and orders of magnitude
- Problem — Hairs on a head
- Problem — The Adriatic Sea
- Problem — Familiar orders of magnitude
- Problem — How many hairs does a head have
- Problem — Ranking orders of magnitude
- Problem — Breaths in a lifetime
- Problem — Cooking rice, the Fermi way
- Problem — Volume of a rectangular box