 The exponent of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce a given number is called the logarithm of the given number.  Academic Algebra - Σελίδα 389των William James Milne - 1901 - 444 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Aaron Schuyler - 1864 - 506 σελίδες
............ 405 INTRODUCTION i V. LOGARITHMS. 1. Definition. A logarithm of a number is the exponent denoting the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, in the equation, b- = n, b is the base of the system, n is the number whose... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - 1875 - 284 σελίδες
...TABLE8. 185 INTRODUCTION. LOGARITHMS. 1. Definition. A logarithm of a number is the exponent denoting the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, in the equation, b'=n, b is the base of the system, n is the number whose logarithm... | |
 | Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1882 - 60 σελίδες
...VI., §§ 74, 78-82, 86, 89. LOGARITHMS. § 1. The logarithm of a number N is the exponent denoting the power to which a fixed number called the base must be raised in order to produce N. Thus, if N= V, then is logb N= x ; or, in words, when the base is b the logarithm of N is x. Whatislog28?... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - 1896 - 418 σελίδες
...in arithmetical progression. Show that abc CHAPTER XX. LOGARITHMS. 580. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number,...called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, since 34 = 81, 4 is the logarithm of 81 to the base 3 ; since 8s = 512, 3 is... | |
 | Elmer Adelbert Lyman, Edwin Charles Goddard - 1899 - 188 σελίδες
...subtracting 10, as has been explained. 39. We may now define the logarithm of a number as the index of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. Thus, ax = 6, and x = log„o (where Ioga6 is read logarithm of b to the... | |
 | Peder Lobben - 1899 - 460 σελίδες
...division of evolution. The logarithm of any given number is the exponent of the power to which another fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. There are two systems of logarithms in more or less general use in mechanical calculations:... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1900 - 728 σελίδες
...multiplication and division, by substituting in their stead addition ami subtraction. A logarithm i> the exponent of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must br raised to produce a given number. The base of the common system is 10, and, as a logarithm is the... | |
 | James Harrington Boyd - 1901 - 812 σελίδες
...Definition of a Logarithm. — The logarithm of a given number ix the exponent denoting the />uwer to which a fixed number called the base must be raised in order to produce the given number. EXAMPLE 1. Since 43 = 64, 3 is the logarithm of 64 to the base 4. EXAMPLE 2. Since... | |
 | William James Milne - 1902 - 620 σελίδες
...; 1000 as a power of 10 ; 10,000 as a power of 10 ; 10 as a power of 10 ; 1 as a power of 10. 459. The exponent of the power to which a fixed number...must be raised in order to produce a given number is culled the Logarithm of the given number. When 10 is the base, the logarithm of 100 is 2, for 100 =... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - 1903 - 390 σελίδες
...area of a triangle when the three sides are given. LOGARITHMS. 56. The logarithm of a number, N, is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number,...called the base, must be raised in order to produce N. Thus, if 3* = 81, logs 81 = 4; or, in words, the logarithm of 81 to base 3 is 4. What is loga 8?... | |
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