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" For a number greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits before the decimal point. "
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and Mensuration - Page viii
by Aaron Schuyler - 1875 - 251 pages
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Surveying and Navigation: With a Preliminary Treatise on Trigonometry and ...

Aaron Schuyler - Navigation - 1873 - 536 pages
...=3.95323. Log .8979 =T95323. " 897.9 = 2.95323. " .08979 =^95323. " 89.79 = 1.95323. " .008979 = 3795323. The minus sign applies only to the characteristic...figures. 2. If the number is entirely decimal, the characteristic is negative and is one greater, numerically, than the number of 0'8 immediately following...
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Surveying and Navigation, with a Preliminary Treatise on Trigonometry and ...

Aaron Schuyler - Measurement - 1864 - 506 pages
...Log .8979 =JL95323. " 897.9 == 2.95323. " .08979 =~2.95323. " 89.79 = 1.95323. " .008979 = 3.95323. " 8.979 = 0.95323. . . . . The minus sign applies only...integral or mixed, the characteristic is positive and in one less than the number of integral figures. 2. If the number is entirely decimal, the characterixtic...
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Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

Alfred Hix Welsh - Plane trigonometry - 1894 - 228 pages
...the logarithm of any number divided by 10 is one less than the logarithm oŁ the number. THEOREM III. If the number is integral or mixed, the characteristic is positive, and is 1 less than the number of integral places. Suppose it to be known that log 672887 = 5.8279. Dividing...
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A Text-book of Plane Surveying

William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 524 pages
...is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative,...
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Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables: Five Decimal Places

Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative,...
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Plane Trigonometry, for Colleges and Secondary Schools

Daniel Alexander Murray - Plane trigonometry - 1899 - 350 pages
...and (2) comes the following rule for finding the characteristic : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative,...
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Plane Trigonometry

Daniel Alexander Murray - 1906 - 466 pages
...obtained by the following rule, which is deduced in algebra : * When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of figures to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative,...
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Locomotive Data

Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation - Baldwin locomotives - 1912 - 168 pages
...decimal part is called the mantissa. The characteristic of a logarithm of any number greater than unity is positive and is one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. The characteristic of a number consisting entirely of a decimal fraction is negative...
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Plane Trigonometry with Tables

Claude Irwin Palmer, Charles Wilbur Leigh - Plane trigonometry - 1914 - 308 pages
...following rules for determining the characteristic are evident: (1) When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. (2) When the number is less than 1 and expressed decimally...
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Five-figure Mathematical Tables: Consisting of Logs and Cologs of Numbers ...

Logarithms - 1915 - 382 pages
...the decimal point of a number. The rules are as follows : — If the number is greater than unity, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. If the number is less than unity, the characteristic is negative,...
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