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" To divide one number by another.* Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. "
Euclide's Elements: The Whole Fifteen Books Compendiously Demonstrated: with ... - Page 353
by Euclid - 1751 - 384 pages
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Cocker's Decimal arithmetick. Whereunto is added, his Artificial arithmetick ...

Edward Cocker - 1729 - 514 pages
...Negative. IV. When the Charaaerifticks of the Dividend and of the Divifor are both Negative, fubtraS the Logarithm of the Divifor from the Logarithm of the Dividend, and the Remainder is the Logarithm of the Quotient; and if you borrow 10, it muft be paid to the Index of the Divifor,...
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Select Parts of Professor Saunderson's Elements of Algebra: For the Use of ...

Nicholas Saunderson - Algebra - 1761 - 438 pages
...which they belong ; that is, whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtra&ing the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient : and thus by the help of logarithms may the operation of divifion be performed by...
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Select Parts of Saunderson's Elements of Algebra: For the Use of Students at ...

Nicholas Saunderson - Algebra - 1776 - 436 pages
...which they belong \ that is, whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtracting the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient : and thus by the help of logarithms may the operation of divifion be performed by...
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The Accomplished Tutor: Or, Complete System of Liberal Education ...

Thomas Hodson - Education - 1802 - 556 pages
...that of the root ; that of the fixth power fextuple, &c. To perform divifion by logarithms, fubtrack the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient, firft changing the Ggn of the logarithm of the index of the divifor, and if they be...
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The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education ..., Volume 2

Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...that of the root; that of the fixth power ftxtuple, &rc. To perform divifion by logarithms, fubtract the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient, firft changing the fign of the logarithm of the index of the divifor, and if they...
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An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plane and Spherical ...

Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...29-128. PROPOSITION VIII. (M) To divide one number by another. * Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. If any of the indices be negative, or if the divisor be greater than the dividend,...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences ..., Volume 12

Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...cancels the — 2, and there remains the — I to let down. DIVISION BY LOGARITHMS. RULE. SUBTRACT the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the number anfwering to the remainder will be the "logarithm of the quotient requireJ. Obferving to change...
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An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plain and Spherical ...

Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...29-128. PROPOSITION VIII. (M) To divide one number by another.* Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. If any of the indices be negative, or if the divisor be greater than the dividend,...
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An introduction to the theory ... of plane and spherical trigonometry ...

Thomas Keith - 1839 - 498 pages
...29-128. PROPOSITION VIII. (12) To divide one number by another.* Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. If any of the indices be negative, or if the divisor be greater than the dividend,...
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Crocker's Elements of land surveying. To which are added, Tables of six ...

Abraham Crocker - 1841 - 486 pages
...table to 56. DIVISION, by means of logarithms, is performed by subtracting the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. Divide 56 by 4. Logarithm of 56 = 1-748188 - - - of 4 = 0-602060 1-146128, answering...
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