 | Charles Davies - 1830 - 318 σελίδες
...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 whole number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1830 - 390 σελίδες
...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 aw/ioL number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1833 - 436 σελίδες
...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 whole number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal... | |
 | 1836 - 192 σελίδες
...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 whole number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by vmty than the number of ciphers between the decimal... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1837 - 342 σελίδες
...than the number of ciphers' be tween the decimal point and the first significant figure: Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1839 - 376 σελίδες
...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...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1839 - 376 σελίδες
...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...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1835 - 388 σελίδες
...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...of its logarithm a negative characteristic greater 6j unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1841 - 414 σελίδες
...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, and then prefixing to the deci. mal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic greater by unity than the number of ciphers... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1845 - 382 σελίδες
...be found from the tables, by uniting to the logarithm of its numerator, regarded as a whole number, a negative characteristic greater by unity than the...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,... | |
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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. 
