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Truong-Son N.
May 13, 2017

Of course. You should review your exponent rules; 10^(-x) = 1/(10^x), so if x is smaller in magnitude than y, then 10^(-x) > 10^(-y).

But that assumes that the units are identical. If you have not converted your quantities to the SAME units, they cannot be compared yet.

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