 The exponent of the power to which a fixed number called the Base must be raised in order to produce a given number is called the Logarithm of the given number.  Logarithms - Page 1by Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1882 - 43 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Aaron Schuyler - Measurement - 1873 - 508 pages
...Taking Departures .402 TABLES . 405 INTRODUCTION. LOGARITHMS. 1. Definition. A logarithm of a number is the exponent denoting the power to which a fixed...called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, in the equation, b* = n, b is the base of the system, n is the number whose... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - Measurement - 1875 - 284 pages
...regular polyhedron. 183 TABLE8. 185 INTRODUCTION. LOGARITHMS. 1. Definition. A logarithm of a number is the exponent denoting the power to which a fixed...called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, in the equation, b'=n, b is the base of the system, n is the number whose logarithm... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Algebra - 1896 - 418 pages
...progression. Show that abc CHAPTER XX. LOGARITHMS. 580. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, since 34 = 81, 4 is the logarithm of 81 to the base 3 ; since 8s = 512, 3 is... | |
 | Elmer Adelbert Lyman, Edwin Charles Goddard - Plane trigonometry - 1899 - 188 pages
...subtracting 10, as has been explained. 39. We may now define the logarithm of a number as the index of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. Thus, ax = 6, and x = log„o (where Ioga6 is read logarithm of b to the... | |
 | Peder Lobben - Mechanical engineering - 1899 - 460 pages
...division of evolution. The logarithm of any given number is the exponent of the power to which another fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. There are two systems of logarithms in more or less general use in mechanical calculations:... | |
 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1901 - 462 pages
...power of 10; 10,000 as a power of 10; 10 as a power of 10; 1 as a power of 10. 451. The exponent of the power to which a fixed number called the Base must be raised in order to produce a given number is called the Logarithm of the given number. When 10 is the base, the logarithm of 100... | |
 | James Harrington Boyd - Algebra - 1901 - 812 pages
...Definition of a Logarithm. — The logarithm of a given number ix the exponent denoting the />uwer to which a fixed number called the base must be raised in order to produce the given number. EXAMPLE 1. Since 43 = 64, 3 is the logarithm of 64 to the base 4. EXAMPLE 2. Since... | |
 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1902 - 620 pages
...power of 10 ; 10,000 as a power of 10 ; 10 as a power of 10 ; 1 as a power of 10. 459. The exponent of the power to which a fixed number called the Base must be raised in order to produce a given number is culled the Logarithm of the given number. When 10 is the base, the logarithm of 100... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 390 pages
...triangle when the three sides are given. LOGARITHMS. 56. The logarithm of a number, N, is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce N. Thus, if 3* = 81, logs 81 = 4; or, in words, the logarithm of 81 to base 3 is 4. What is loga 8? We know 2s... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 1905 - 698 pages
...and division, by substituting in their stead addition and subtraction. A logarithm is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised to produce a given number. The base of the common system is 10, and, as a logarithm is the exponent... | |
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