 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 518 pages
...10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Daniel Alexander Murray - Plane trigonometry - 1899 - 350 pages
...following rule for finding the characteristic : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Thomas Ulvan Taylor, Charles Puryear - Trigonometry - 1902 - 268 pages
...characteristic is 3. For numbers greater than 1, therefore, we see that the characteristic is positive and 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Any positive number less than 1 may be expressed, exactly or approximately, as a decimal, and... | |
 | Herbert Edwin Hawkes - Algebra - 1905 - 312 pages
...following rules are immediately deduced. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of digits to the left of its decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of 471 is 2, since 471 is between 100 and... | |
 | Daniel Alexander Murray - 1906 - 466 pages
...following rule for finding the characteristic : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Frederick Howland Somerville - Algebra - 1908 - 428 pages
...decimal point is 2. In general, The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. (b) When the given number is a decimal. 443. By Art. 440 (4), the characteristic of the logarithm... | |
 | John Gale Hun, Charles Ranald MacInnes - Trigonometry - 1911 - 234 pages
...to the left of the decimal place is n — 1 Hence, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal place. This rule obviously does not apply to the logarithms of numbers less than 1. Consider the logarithm... | |
 | Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - Algebra - 1911 - 288 pages
...determination of the characteristic we have the rules I. The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. II. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is negative and numerically one greater than... | |
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The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is a positive integer or zero, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. 
