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FRACTION is a negative number, and is one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant Jigure.

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...Log 1.359 = 0.13322 b. For numbers less than unity, the characteristic is negative. It is one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Since the mantissa is positive, the negative sign is placed above the characteristic to show...

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