Exercise 2.3

1. Find the characteristic of the following numbers (i) \(5287\) \[\text{Characteristic }= 3\] (ii) \(59.28\) \[\text{Characteristic }= 1\] (iii) \( 0.0567\) \[\text{Characteristic }=\overline{2}\] (iv) \(234.7\) \[\text{Characteristic }= 2\] (v) \(0.000049\) \[\text{Characteristic }=\overline{5}\] (vi) \(145000\) \[\text{Characteristic }= 5\] 2 Find the logarithm of the following numbers (i) \(43\) \[\text{Characteristic }= 1\] \[\text{Mantissa }= 6335\] \[\log(43) =…