 I. The characteristic of any number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits before the decimal point. The following table, which is taken from § 1, p.  Elementary Mathematical Analysis - Page 228by John Wesley Young, Frank Millett Morgan - 1917 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James William Nicholson - Trigonometry - 1898 - 204 pages
...decimal, 100 and 10 is 1 + a decimal, 10 and 1 is 0 + a decimal. That is, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. Thus, log 325 = 2 + decimal, log 24.75 = 1 + decimal. Again,... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 390 pages
...decimal point is 2, etc. From this we may formulate the following rule : The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. 70. From Art. 66 we see that the logarithm of a number between... | |
 | Arthur Graham Hall, Fred Goodrich Frink - Logarithms - 1909 - 264 pages
...rule for the characteristic : The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than unity is one less than the number of digits at the left of the decimal point. Should the number be less than unity, move the decimal point ten places to the right (thus multiplying... | |
 | Arthur Graham Hall, Fred Goodrich Frink - Plane trigonometry - 1909 - 272 pages
...rule for the characteristic : The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than unity is one less than the number of digits at the left of the decimal point. Should the number be less than unity, move the decimal point ten places to the right (thus multiplying... | |
 | Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - Algebra - 1911 - 288 pages
...negative decimal). For the 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... | |
 | Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart - Algebra - 1912 - 504 pages
...the left of the decimal point ; its logarithm has as characteristic 1 less than 3,' or 2. Rule. — The characteristic of the common logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of significant figures to the left of the decimal point. EXERCISE 172 What are the characteristics of... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1913 - 366 pages
...the left of the decimal point ; its logarithm h»s as characteristic 1 less than 3, or 2. Rule. — The characteristic of the common logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of significant figures to the left of the decimal point. EXERCISE 85 What are the characteristics of the... | |
 | Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart - Algebra - 1913 - 360 pages
...the left of the decimal point ; its logarithm has as characteristic 1 less than 3, or 2. Rule. — The characteristic of the common logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one lesa than the number of significant figures to the left of the decimal point. Thus, the characteristic... | |
 | Earle Raymond Hedrick - Logarithms - 1913 - 162 pages
...logarithm of any number greater than 1 may be determined as follows : KULB I. The characteristic of any number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits before the decimal point. The following table, which is taken from § 1, p. v, shows that the logarithm... | |
 | Alfred Monroe Kenyon, Louis Ingold - Trigonometry - 1913 - 184 pages
...logarithm of any number greater than 1 may be determined as follows : RULE I. The characteristic of any number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits before the decimal point. The following table, which is taken from § 1, p. v, shows that the logarithm... | |
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