I went to the "mode" option of the calculator thinking that there was something wrong with the setting but everything was fine. I don"t mind manually converting the scientific notation into decimal form but I"d really like for the value to be already in decimal form given the workload of these problems.
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Note: I have a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition.
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The calculator automatically uses scientific notation for numbers smaller than $0.001$ in absolute value, no matter what your mode settings are; this cannot be overridden.
The most straightforward way to get the calculator to immediately tell you how many zeroes there are after the decimal, in such a case, is to add $1$:
0.17^4 8.3521e-4Ans+1 1.00083521Just ignore the $1$ in front of the decimal point and you have the answer you want.
Note that in general, this will lose you precision:
0.17^8 6.975757441e-7Ans+1 1.000000698In this case, it"s not too bad: we can use the second output to count zeroes and the first for more digits. Sometimes, it will lose you all of the precision:
0.17^16 4.86611919e-13Ans+1 1But in this last example, maybe you don"t want the number as a decimal after all.
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Scientific notation can represent exact numbers if they are terminating decimals. In your case $0.17^4=0.00083521=8.3521E-04$ exactly. Did you drop the final $1$? I would expect the calculator to show it. The calculator probably does this calculation as $e^4 log 0.17$ and $log 0.17$ cannot be represented exactly, so there is a reasonable chance that the result is not exact. I wouldn"t expect that to change anything as far forward as the fifth place, but seeing $8.35209999E-04$ would not surprise me
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