II. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant digit, and writing — 10 after the result. Thus, the characteristic of log... Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables - Page viiby Earle Raymond Hedrick - 1913 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 318 pages
...whole number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures. 19. To find, in the tables, a number answering to a given logarithm. Search, in the... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1833 - 436 pages
...be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a... | |
| Logarithms - 1836 - 192 pages
...be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...then prefixing to the decimal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures. Thus, the logarithm of .0412, is 2.614897. PROBLEM. To find from the table, a number... | |
| Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it ' as a whole number,... | |
| Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number,... | |
| Charles Davies - Navigation - 1841 - 414 pages
...be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number,... | |
| Charles Davies - Algebra - 1845 - 382 pages
...logarithm of its numerator, regarded as a whole number, a negative characteristic greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. To demonstrate this in a general manner, let a denote the numerator of a decimal fraction,... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 532 pages
...characteristic of the logarithm о/1 ANY DECIMAL FRACTION is a negative number, and it one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. For it has been shown (Art 4) that the logarithm of 0.1 is — 1, of 0.01 is — 2, of 0.001... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 518 pages
...characteristic of the logarithm O/'ANY DECIMAL FRACTION is a negative number, and is one more tftan the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. For it has been shown (Art. 4) that the logarithm of 0.1 is — 1, of 0.01 is — 2, of 0.001... | |
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