 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1833 - 436 pages
...would be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and then prefixing to the decimal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by...point and the first significant place of figures. Thus, the logarithm of .0412, is 2.614897. PROBLEM. To find from the table, a number answering to a... | |
 | Logarithms - 1836 - 192 pages
...would be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1837 - 342 pages
...decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and then prefixing to the decimal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic greater by...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and then prefixing to the decimal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic greater by...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...fraction is found, by considering it ' as a whole number, and then prefixing to the decimal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic greater by...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1841 - 414 pages
...fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and then prefixing to the deci. mal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic greater by...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1845 - 382 pages
...be found from the tables, by uniting to the logarithm of its numerator, regarded as a whole number, a negative characteristic greater by unity than the...between the decimal point and the first significant figure. To demonstrate this in a general manner, let a denote the numerator of a decimal fraction,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 532 pages
...Ttte characteristic of the logarithm о/1 ANY DECIMAL FRACTION is a negative number, and it one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. For it has been shown (Art 4) that the logarithm of 0.1 is — 1, of 0.01 is — 2, of 0.001... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 518 pages
...characteristic of the logarithm O/'ANY DECIMAL FRACTION is a negative number, and is one more tftan the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. For it has been shown (Art. 4) that the logarithm of 0.1 is — 1, of 0.01 is — 2, of 0.001... | |
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The characteristic of a number less than 1 is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant digit, and writing — 10 after the result. 
