| Benjamin Peirce - Algebra - 1837 - 300 pages
...given Number. Hence, if the greatest integer contained in a logarithm is called its characteristic, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is equal to the number of places by which its first significant figure on the left is removed from the units' place, the characteristic being... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Algebra - 1837 - 302 pages
...given Number. Hence, if the greatest integer contained in a logarithm is called its characteristic, the characteristic -of the logarithm of a number is equal to the number of places by which its first significant figure on the left is removed from the units' place, the characteristic being... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Algebra - 1855 - 308 pages
...1, and so on. Hence, if the greatest integer contained in a logarithm is called its characteristic, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is equal to the number of places by which its first significant figure on the left 'is removed from the units' place, the characteristic being... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Algebra - 1858 - 296 pages
...integer contained in a logarithm is called its characteristic, the characteristic of the logarlthm of a number is equal to the number of places by which its f1rst significant figure on the left is removed from the units' place, the characteristic being... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - Plane trigonometry - 1866 - 206 pages
...mantissa shall always be positive, the characteristic of the logarithm will be — (n + 1). Hence we have the following rule : the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is one less than the number of integral figures of the number ; when the number has no integral figures... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Algebra - 1870 - 302 pages
...1, and so on. Hence, if the greatest integer contained in a logarithm is called its characteristic, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is equal to the numher of places by ichich its first significant figure on the left is removed from the units' place,... | |
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