 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1833 - 436 pages
...as a 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 ta^le, a number answering to a given logarithm. Search, in the column of logarithms,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 359 pages
...and 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 answering to a... | |
 | Logarithms - 1836 - 177 pages
...it as a whole number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by vmty than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures. 19. To ßnd, in the table, a number answering to a given logarithm. ' • Search, in the column of... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1837 - 336 pages
...belongs only to the characteristic. If the decimal were 0.006 its logarithm would be the same as before, excepting the characteristic, which would be— 3....always be one greater than the number of ciphers' be tween the decimal point and the first significant figure: Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...belongs only to the characteristic. If the decimal were 0.006 its logarithm would be the same as before, excepting the characteristic, which would be — 3....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 - 380 pages
...belongs only to the characteristic. If the decimal were 0.006 its logarithm would be the same as before, excepting the characteristic, which would be — 3....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 - 406 pages
...belongs only to the characteristic. If the decimal were 0.006 its logarithm would be the same as before, excepting the characteristic, which would be — 3....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 - 368 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 - 514 pages
...Ttte 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 - 520 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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FRACTION is a negative number, and is one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant Jigure. 
