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Identify the instrument having minimum least count out of the following options.
(a)A vernier calipers with 20 divisions on the vernier scale coinciding with 19 main scale divisions.
(b)A screw gauge of pitch 1 mm and 100 divisions on the circular scale.
(c)A spherometer of pitch 0.1 mm and 100 divisions on the circular scale.
(d)An optical instrument that can measure length to within a wavelength to light.

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