 | John William Colenso (bp. of Natal.) - 1849 - 250 pages
...of terms by the Bin. Theorem : but we shall see below that such would be the case. 103. If we give N the successive values 1, 2, 3, &c., and register the...characteristic. Of course when there is no integral part, the characteristic is 0. 104. If the base a be > 1, then since a'" = 0, o" = 1, a" = oo , we... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1871 - 490 pages
...an entire part plus a fractional part, which is generally expressed decimally. The entire part of a logarithm is called the characteristic, the decimal part, is called the mantissa. 4. If, in Equation ( 3 ), we make p successively equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, &c., and also equal to — 0,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Leveling - 1871 - 448 pages
...an entire part plus a fractional part, which is generally expressed decimally. The entire part of a logarithm is called the characteristic; the decimal part is called the mantissa. 4. If, in Equation (3), we make p successively equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, &c. ; and then equal to — 1,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1874 - 500 pages
...an entire part plus a fractional part, which is generally expressed decimally. The entire part of a logarithm is called the characteristic, the decimal part, is called the mantissa. 4. If, in Equation ( 3 ), we make p successively equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, &c., and also equal to — 0,... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1880 - 362 pages
...enure part plus a, fractional part, which is generally expressed decimally. The entire part of the logarithm is called the characteristic ; the decimal part is called the mantissa. 2. The characteristic of the logarithm of a whole number is positive, and numerically 1 less than the... | |
 | Daniel Evan Jones - Mathematical physics - 1888 - 332 pages
...the proportional part being added to the righthand figure of the logarithm. The integral part of a logarithm is called the characteristic ; the decimal part is called the mantissa. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number may be determined by inspection. For io°=1, lol =... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1890 - 360 pages
...entire part plus a fractional part, which is generally expressed decimally. The entire part of the logarithm is called the characteristic ; the decimal part is called the mantissa. 2. The characteristic of the logarithm of a whole number is positive, and numerically 1 less than the... | |
 | John Maximilian Dyer - Plane trigonometry - 1891 - 306 pages
...is obviously only an approximation, as no power of 10 is equal to 157 exactly. 112. Definition. — The integral part of any logarithm is called the characteristic, the decimal part the mantissa. 113. In- our work we often come across a negative logarithm : for instance, bg - = log... | |
 | William Freeland - Algebra - 1895 - 328 pages
...; and that the logarithms of all numbers between 0 and 1 are negative. 386. The integral part of a logarithm is called the characteristic ; the decimal part is called the mantissa. Thus, log 27 = 1.43136. Here 1 is the characteristic, and .43136 the mantissa. 387. Generally the mantissa... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1908 - 386 pages
...entire part plus a fractional part, which is generally expressed decimally. The entire part of the logarithm is called the characteristic ; the decimal part is called the mantissa. 2. The characteristic of the logarithm of a whole number is positive, and numerically 1 less than the... | |
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If, therefore, a number is an exact power of 10, its logarithm is a whole number. If a number is not an exact power of 10, its logarithm will not be a whole number, but will be made up of an entire part plus a fractional part, which is generally expressed... 
