| Francis Holliday - Equations - 1745 - 346 pages
...Trouble. NEW METHOD of computing LOGARITHMS. THIS Method is fouiided upon thefe Confiderations. i . That the Sum of the Logarithms of any two Numbers is the Logarithm of the Product of thofe two Numbers multiplied together. 2. That the Logarithm of Unit is nothing, and confequently,... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1749 - 878 pages
...giving the Root true to twenty three Places. 3. This Method is founded upon thefe Confiderations. 1. That the Sum of the Logarithms of any two Numbers is the /?"'»? Logarithm of the Produit of thofe two Numbers multiplied together. ntluns 2. That the Logarithm of Unit is nothing ;... | |
| Charles Hutton - Logarithms - 1785 - 560 pages
...Philofophical Tranfadions. His method is founded on thefe three confederations : ift, that the fum of the logarithms of any two numbers is the logarithm of the product of thofe numbers; ad, that the logarithm of i is nothing, and confequently that the nearer any number... | |
| Charles Hutton - Logarithms - 1785 - 534 pages
...Philofophical Tranfa£Hons. His method is founded on thefe three confiderations : ift, that the ium of the logarithms of any two numbers is the logarithm of the produft of thofe numbers ; 2d, that the logarithm of i is nothing, and confequently that the nearer... | |
| Andrew Mackay - Latitude - 1809 - 414 pages
...exponents of a series of numbers in geometrical progression. Or, logarithms may be conceived to be a series of numbers so contrived, that the sum of...corresponding term in the geometrical progression. Let, therefore, the following be a series of numbers in geometrical * « Ж «IM ** * progression,... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 574 pages
...number 352 of the Philosophical Transactions. His method is founded on these three considerations: 1st, that the sum of the logarithms of any two numbers is the logarithm of the product of those numbers; 2d, that the logarithm of 1 is nothing, and consequently that the nearer any number... | |
| Charles Hutton - Bridges - 1812 - 514 pages
...number 352 of the Philosophical Transactions. His method is founded on these three considerations: ist, that the sum of the logarithms of any two numbers, is the logarithm of the product of those numbers; 2d, that the logarithm of 1 is nothing, and consequently tliat the nearer any number... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...parts as the circumference contains 3*0. TABLE L LOGARITHMS OF NUMBERS. EXPLANATION, . .LOGARITHMS are a series of numbers so contrived, that the sum of the Logarithms of an7 two numbers, is the logarithm of the product of these numbers. Hence it is inferred, that if a... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...computing foirarithms in the Philos. Trans. No. 352, which is founded on these three principles, viz. 1st, That the sum of the logarithms of any two numbers is the logarithm of the product of those numbers; 2d, That the logarithm of I is 0, and consequently that the nearer any number is to... | |
| Thomas Spofford - Almanacs, American - 1835 - 84 pages
...logarithms of any two numbers, is the logarithm of the product of those numbers ; and the auTurence of the logarithms of any two numbers, is the logarithm of the quotient found by dividing (ho greater of those numbers by the less : to find the root of any number,... | |
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