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. Second Course in Algebra - Page 190by Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - 1911 - 264 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... | |
| James William Nicholson - Trigonometry - 1898 - 204 pages
...100 and 10 is 1 + a decimal, 10 and 1 is 0 + a decimal. That is, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. Thus, log 325 = 2 + decimal, log 24.75 = 1 + decimal. Again,... | |
| 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... | |
| American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 390 pages
...point is 2, etc. From this we may formulate the following rule : The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. 70. From Art. 66 we see that the logarithm of a number between... | |
| Herbert Edwin Hawkes - Algebra - 1905 - 312 pages
...following rules are immediately deduced. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of digits to the left of its decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of 471 is 2, since 471 is between 100 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... | |
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