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Dealing With Antilogs

The document contains solutions to two logarithm problems: 1) To find the antilog of 2.5463, the mantissa 0.5463 is looked up in an antilog table to get 3516. 2 is added based on the characteristic of 2 to get the answer of 351.8. 2) To find the value of x given log x = -2.0258, the logarithm is converted to a positive mantissa of 3.9742. Looking this up in an antilog table gives the number 9423. With a characteristic of -3, the answer is written with two decimal places as 0.009423.

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Dealing With Antilogs

The document contains solutions to two logarithm problems: 1) To find the antilog of 2.5463, the mantissa 0.5463 is looked up in an antilog table to get 3516. 2 is added based on the characteristic of 2 to get the answer of 351.8. 2) To find the value of x given log x = -2.0258, the logarithm is converted to a positive mantissa of 3.9742. Looking this up in an antilog table gives the number 9423. With a characteristic of -3, the answer is written with two decimal places as 0.009423.

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1. Find antilog 2.5463.

Solution:

Clearly, we are to find the number whose logarithm is 2.5463. For this consider the
mantissa .5463. Now find .54 in the extreme left-hand column of the antilog-table (see
four-figure antilog-table) and then move horizontally to the right to the column headed
by 6 of the top-most row and read the number 3516. Again we move along the same
horizontal line further right to the column headed by 3 of mean difference and read the
number 2 there. This 2 is now added to the previous number 3516 to give 3518. Since
the characteristic is 2, there should be three digits in the integral part of the required
number.

Therefore, antilog 2.5463 = 351.8.

2. If log x = -2.0258, find x.

Solution:

In order to find the value of x using antilog-table, the decimal part (i.e., the mantissa)
must be made positive. For this we proceed as follows:

log x = -2.0258 = - 3 + 3 - 2.0258

= - 3 + .9742 =3.9742

Therefore, x = antilog 3.9742.

Now, from antilog table we get the number corresponding to the mantissa
.9742 as (9419 + 4) = 9423.
Again the characteristic in log x is (- 3).

Hence, there should be two zeroes between the decimal point and the first significant
digit in the value of x.
Therefore, x = .009423.

Characteristic 1 would allow shift of two decimal places

Characteristic 2 would allow shift of three decimal places and so on.

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