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How it round off from 11.5059 to 12.4941

How it round off from 11.5059 to 12.4941

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Arun Kumar IIT Delhi
askIITians Faculty 256 Points
9 years ago
Hello
I saw your question in the image.

Its not a round off!!!!.
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

Thanks & Regards
Arun Kumar
Btech, IIT Delhi
Askiitians Faculty

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