 | Charles Davies - 1830 - 390 σελίδες
...decimal fraction is found, by considering it as aw/ioL number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the...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... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1830 - 318 σελίδες
...would be —3. 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 place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1833 - 436 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1836 - 394 σελίδες
...found, by considering it as a whole number, and then prefixing to the decimal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the...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... | |
 | 1836 - 192 σελίδες
...would be — 3. 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 place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1837 - 342 σελίδες
...found, by considering it as a whole number, 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 ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1839 - 376 σελίδες
...found, by considering it ' as a whole number, 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 ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1839 - 376 σελίδες
...found, by considering it as a whole number, 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 ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1841 - 414 σελίδες
...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 between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1862 - 532 σελίδες
...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 is —... | |
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The characteristic of a number less than 1 is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant digit, and writing — 10 after the result. 
