What is this? (a subscripted number)

GangsterWaffle · Mar 18, 2018

Does anyone know what the small 10 to the right of -97 means?

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S.G. Janssens · Mar 18, 2018

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Without more context, my guess would be that it indicates -97 in base 10. (Maybe as opposed to e.g. base 16, i.e. hexadecimal?)

GangsterWaffle · Mar 18, 2018

Re: What is this?

Krylov said:

Without more context, my guess would be that it indicates -97 in base 10. (Maybe as opposed to e.g. base 16, i.e. hexadecimal?)

Yeah, I'm sure you're right. It's a computer science book I'm reading so that would make sense. Thought maybe it was a way to represent a logarithm I never saw before.

Thanks!

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