 | 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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... place, the characteristic being positive when this figure is to the left of the units' place, negative when it is to the right of the units' place, and zero when it is in the units 