 | William Smyth - 1858 - 344 páginas
...produce these numbers; this would be a table of logarithms. The logarithm of a number, is, therefore, the exponent of the power, to which it is necessary to raise a given or invariable number, in order to produce the proposed number. Thus in the equation a* = y,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1859 - 324 páginas
...make т = 0, Ж will be equal to 1 ; if m — 1, M will be equal to 10, &c. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 217. If, as before, 10 denotes the base of the... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1860 - 412 páginas
...; and a is called the base of the system in which the logarithm is taken. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base, in order to produce the given number. The logarithms of all numbers corresponding to a given... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1870 - 392 páginas
...which have been described. ELEMENTS INTRODUCTION. SECTION I. ОГ LOGARITHM». 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the base of the system,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 448 páginas
...ELEMENTS OF SURVEYING. BOOK I. LOGARITHMS AND TRIGONOMETRY. SECTION I. LOGARITHMS. 1. THE LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1872 - 464 páginas
...trigonometry. b TRIGONOMETRY AND MENSURATION. INTR0DUCTI0N T0 TRIG0N0METRY. LOGARITHMS. 1. THB LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1874 - 500 páginas
...INTRODUCTION TO TRIG( LOGARITHMS. rYORK ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDE* FOUNDATIONS 1899 1. THE LOGAEITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any... | |
 | William Guy Peck - 1875 - 348 páginas
...3(ж — 2) — 2(ж — 1) + 6(ж + 1)' CHAPTER XI. LOGARITHMS. Definitions. 185. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system. 186.... | |
 | Carl Bremiker - 1875 - 544 páginas
...common logarithm of a number (which kind of logarithms is exclusively used for purposes of computation) is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the number 10 in order to produce the given number. Thus, if the exponents are a and I, and if we put... | |
 | William Guy Peck - 1876 - 376 páginas
...TRIGONOMETRYI. INTRODUCTION—USE OF LOGAEITHMS. DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS. 1. The common logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise 10 to produce the given number; thus, 2 is the logarithm of 100, because 10 8 = 100. NOTE.—The principles... | |
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The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first number. 
