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" To Divide One Number by Another, Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and obtain the antilogarithm of the difference. "
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and Mensuration - Page 17
by Aaron Schuyler - 1875 - 251 pages
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Euclide's Elements: The Whole Fifteen Books Compendiously Demonstrated: with ...

Euclid - Euclid's Elements - 1751 - 420 pages
...whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtr acting the logarithm of the divifor from the Logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the Logarithm Z of of the quotient ; and bccaufe every fraction is nothing elfe but the quotient of the numerator...
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Select Parts of Professor Saunderson's Elements of Algebra: For the Use of ...

Nicholas Saunderson - Algebra - 1761 - 438 pages
...whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtra&ing the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient : and thus by the help of logarithms may the operation of divifion be performed by mere fubtraction...
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Select Parts of Saunderson's Elements of Algebra: For the Use of Students at ...

Nicholas Saunderson - Algebra - 1776 - 436 pages
...whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtracting the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient : and thus by the help of logarithms may the operation of divifion be performed by mere fubtraction...
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The Accomplished Tutor: Or, Complete System of Liberal Education ...

Thomas Hodson - Education - 1802 - 556 pages
...fixth power fextuple, &c. To perform divifion by logarithms, fubtrack the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient, firft changing the Ggn of the logarithm of the index of the divifor, and if they be of different figns,...
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The shipwright's vade-mecum [by D. Steel].

David Steel - 1805 - 392 pages
...of 9 =.95 424 253 40312 1.35736 35736 is the logarithm of 2277, the Answer. DIVISION BY LOGARITHMS. SUBTRACT the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend ; the difference is the logarithm of the quotient. Divide 477 by 3. Logarithm of 477 .67852 3 47712...
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The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education ..., Volume 2

Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...fixth power ftxtuple, &rc. To perform divifion by logarithms, fubtract the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient, firft changing the fign of the logarithm of the index of the divifor, and if they be of different figns,...
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A Course of Mathematics ...: Designed for the Use of the Officers ..., Volume 1

Isaac Dalby - Mathematics - 1807 - 476 pages
...therefore 51-3 divided by 10000 gives -00513 the product as before. t Division ly Logarithms. 183, SUBTRACT the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder is the logarithm of the quotient. (l62j VOL. i. z LOGARITHMS. Examples. I. Divide 1416 by 59. HI6 log....
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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 4

William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...Example. Multiplicand.. 8.5 0.9Î94189 Multiplier 10 1.0000000 Product 85 1. 9294189 And in division, subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, the remainder is the logarithm of the quotient. num. Injiarillirm. Example. Dividend.. 971S.8 3.9073144...
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An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plane and Spherical ...

Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...426 x '5 X '004 X '275 X 336. Answer 29-128. PROPOSITION VIII. (M) To divide one number by another. * Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm...the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. If any of the indices be negative, or if the divisor be greater than the dividend, change the index...
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A Complete System of Theoretical and Mercantile Arithmetic: Comprehending a ...

George G. Carey - Arithmetic - 1818 - 602 pages
...—3.812913 7.812913 Product 0.04628 log. —2.665393 8.665393 TO PERFORM DIVISION BY LOGARITHMS. RULE. Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, the remainder is the logarithm of the quotient. EXAMPLE I. Divide 25768 by 364. Dividend 25768 log....
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