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...writing a report which was subsequently published and distributed to politicians, scientists, industrialists, journalists and anyone else likely to be interested. Reading 2 Click to read Geoffrey Lee's account of the consensus conference. The author was a lay-panel member for the first UKNCC and chaired the report-writing session. As you read through his account of the...

...writing the same number. One approach involved writing out lots of zeros, while the other approach used the number 10, raised to the power of 14 – an approach known as scientific notation. Using scientific notation removes the difficulty of having to keep an eye on all those zeros and reduces the potential to accidentally miss one out or include an extra one! Scientific...

...write f of z equals z super k and f super prime of z equals k times z super k minus one . In this form, it is apparent that the formula for differentiating a negative integer power is the same as the formula for differentiating a positive integer power. The only difference is that for negative powers, 0 is excluded from the domain. We state these observations as a final...