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I have been a long time reader of this forum and got a lot out of reading the discussions here thus far, so I thought I would give back and explain the method I use for logarithm calculation when solving for pH's and pOH's. The popular method described by most study books (herein referred to as the "estimation method"), when given -log(n*10^-m), is to estimate the answer as being m if n=1, being greater than m.5 if n is greater than ~3,...
pH/log Precise Answer Method (Quick and exact)
I have been a long time reader of this forum and got a lot out of reading the discussions here thus far, so I thought I would give back and explain the method I use for logarithm calculation when solving for pH's and pOH's. The popular method described by most study books (herein referred to as the "estimation method"), when given -log(n*10^-m), is to estimate the answer as being m if n=1, being greater than m.5 if n is greater than ~3,...
pH/log Precise Answer Method (Quick and exact)