 | Dionysius Lardner - Plane trigonometry - 1828 - 434 pages
...numbers whatever are considered as powers of some number arbitrarily assumed, which is called a base, and the exponent of that power of the base, which is equal to any proposed number, is called the logariflvm of that number. Thus, if we consider all numbers as powers... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...logarithm of 4, in the above series is 2; and if this number be multiplied by 3, the product will be— 6, which is the logarithm of 64, or the third power of...system of logarithms, N any number, and x such that N = a* then x is called the logarithm of N in the system whose base is a. The base of the common system... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 pages
...most convenient for practice, are such as are adapted to a series increasing in a tenfold ratio, as ia the last of the above forms, and are those which are...system of logarithms, N any number, and x such that N = a* then x is called the logarithm of N in the system whose base is a. The base of the common system... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1846 - 376 pages
...system of logarithms, all numbers are considered as the powers of some one number, arbitrarily assumed, which is called the base of the system ; and the exponent...equal to any given number is called the logarithm ofthat number. Thus, if a be the base of a system of logarithms, and a? = N, then 2 is the logarithm... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1846 - 380 pages
...system of logarithms, all numbers are considered as the powers of some one number, arbitrarily assumed, which is called the base of the system ; and the exponent...equal to any given number is called the logarithm ofvhat number. Thus, if a be the base of a system of logarithms, and a2 = N, then 2 is the logarithm... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Algebra - 1846 - 542 pages
...system of logaritlims, alt numbers are considered as the powers of some one number, arbitrarily assumed, which is called the BASE of the system, and the exponent...base which is equal to any given number is called tiic LOGARITHM of that number. Thus, if a be the base of a system of logarithms, N any number, and... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Algebra - 1846 - 544 pages
...numbers are considered as the powers of some one number, arbitrarily assumed, which is called the BASE oj the system, and the exponent of that power of the...equal to any given number is called the LOGARITHM oftiiat number. Thus, if a be the base of a system of logarithms, N any number, and x such that N=a',... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Algebra - 1847 - 546 pages
...system of logaritlims, all numbers are considered as the powers of some one number, arbitrarily assumed, which is called the BASE of the system, and the exponent...equal to any given number is called the LOGARITHM of tit at number. Thus, if a be the base of a system of logarithms, N any number, and x such that N=«V... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Algebra - 1849 - 534 pages
...numbers are considered as At powers of some one number, arbitrarily assumed, which is called the BASED/ the system, and the exponent of that power of the...called the LOGARITHM of that number. Thus, if a be tho base of a system of logarithms, N any number, and i such that N=a', then x is called the logarithm... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1852 - 408 pages
...logarithms, all numbers are con- .' '", sidered as the powers of some one number, arbitrarily assumed, which is called the base of the system ; and the exponent of that power of the lose, which is equal to any given number, is catted the LOGARITHM of that number. Thus, if a is the... | |
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In a system of logarithms all numbers are considered as the powers of some one number, arbitrarily chosen, which is called the base of the system, and the exponent of that power of the base which is equal to any given number, is called the logarithm of... 
