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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

Can anyone tell what happen where I made circle with red colour

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Arun Kumar
12 Years ago
Hello
To avoid the need for separate tables to convert positive and negative logarithms back to their original numbers, a bar notation is used. The bar over the characteristic indicates that it is negative whilst the mantissa remains positive.
So here in your example
-(12-0.4941)=-11.5059
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Arun Kumar
Btech, IIT Delhi
Askiitians Faculty