 | Charles Davies - 1830 - 318 páginas
...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 tables, a number answering to a given logarithm. Search, in the column of logarithms,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1830 - 390 páginas
...it as aw/ioL 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 oj figures. 19. To find, in the tables, a number answering to a given logarithm. Search, in the column... | |
 | 1836 - 192 páginas
...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... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1836 - 394 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1837 - 342 páginas
...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 - 1839 - 376 páginas
...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 - 1839 - 376 páginas
...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 - 1841 - 414 páginas
...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 - 1845 - 382 páginas
...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 - 1862 - 532 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
