The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is a positive integer or zero, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Intermediate Algebra - Page 243by Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - 1916 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
| William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 524 pages
...characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
| Daniel Alexander Murray - Plane trigonometry - 1899 - 226 pages
...finding the characteristic : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
| Thomas Ulvan Taylor, Charles Puryear - Trigonometry - 1902 - 268 pages
...characteristic is 3. For numbers greater than 1, therefore, we see that the characteristic is positive and 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Any positive number less than 1 may be expressed, exactly or approximately, as a decimal, and... | |
| Daniel Alexander Murray - 1906 - 466 pages
...finding the characteristic : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
| Frederick Howland Somerville - Algebra - 1908 - 428 pages
...decimal point is 2. In general, The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. (b) When the given number is a decimal. 443. By Art. 440 (4), the characteristic of the logarithm... | |
| John Gale Hun, Charles Ranald MacInnes - Trigonometry - 1911 - 234 pages
...the left of the decimal place is n — 1 Hence, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal place. This rule obviously does not apply to the logarithms of numbers less than 1. Consider the logarithm... | |
| Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - Algebra - 1911 - 288 pages
...determination of the characteristic we have the rules I. The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. II. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is negative and numerically one greater than... | |
| Earle Bertram Norris, Kenneth Gardner Smith, Ralph Thurman Craigo - Arithmetic - 1913 - 234 pages
...number) part have a logarithm of 3.+, and so on, the integral part of the logarithm always being 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point in(the number. The whole number or integral part of a logarithm is called the characteristic... | |
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