 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 542 páginas
...be readily understood, viz. The index of the logarithm of any number greater than unity is equal to one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. Thus, in searching for the logarithm of such a number as 2970, we find in the tables opposite to 2970 the... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 506 páginas
...be readily understood, viz. The index of the logarithm of any number greater than unity is equal to one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. Thus, in searching for the logarithm of such a number as 2970, we find in the tables opposite to 2970 the... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 páginas
...be readily understood, viz. The index of the logarithm of any number greater than unity is equal to one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. Thus, in searching for the logarithm of such a number as 2970, we find in the tables opposite to 2970 the... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1846 - 380 páginas
...characteristic or index, and may always be known from the following KULE. The index of the logarithm of any number greater than unity, is one less than the number...the given number. Thus, the logarithm of 297 is 2 + a fraction ; that is, the index of the logarithm of 297 is 2, which is one less than the number of... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1846 - 376 páginas
...characteristic or index, and may always be known from the following RULE. The index of the logarithm of any number greater than unity, is one less than the number...the given number. Thus, the logarithm of 297 is 2 + a fraction ; that is, the index of the logarithm of 297 is 2, which is one less than the number of... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - 1846 - 542 páginas
...readily understood, viz. : The index of Oie logarithm of any number greater titan unity is equal to one less than the number of integral figures in the given number ; for if the number be between 10 and 100, it will contain two integral figures ; if between 100 and... | |
 | Janet Taylor - 1853 - 124 páginas
...supplied. These observations being understood the following Rule must be borne in mind. Rule. The index of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of digits in the integral part, and when the number is less than unity, the index is properly negative,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1857 - 400 páginas
...we may easily find as many logarithms as we please. NOTE.—The index of every logarithm is always one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. 308, To find in the table the logarithm of any number. (1.) If the given number be less than 100, or... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1859 - 368 páginas
...may be found a more convenient guide in practice. (321.) The characteristic of the Logarithm of any number greater than unity, is one less than the number of integral figures in the given number ; but The characteristic of the Logarithm of a decimal fraction is nega, tive, and one more than the... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1862 - 518 páginas
...and the decimal part is sometimes called the MANTISSA. 7. The characteristic of the logarithm O/'ANY NUMBER GREATER THAN UNITY, is one less than the number, of integral figures in the given number. For it has been shown (Art. 3) that the logarithm of 1 is 0, of 10 is 1, of 100 is 2, of 1000 is 3,... | |
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The characteristic of the logarithm of ANY NUMBER GREATER THAN UNITY, is one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. 
