The vernier scale of a travelling microscope has 50 divisions which coincide with 49 main scale divisions. If each main scale division is 0.5 mm, then the least count of the microscope is
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1 MSD = 
mm
50 VSD = 49 MSD
1 VSD = 
Least count = 1 MSD 1 VSD
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