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" 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 190
by Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - 1911 - 264 pages
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Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables: Five Decimal Places

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...
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A Text-book of Plane Surveying

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...
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Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

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,...
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Plane Trigonometry for Colleges and Secondary Schools

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...
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The Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

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...
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Mathematics, mechanics, heat

American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 392 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...
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Advanced Algebra

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...
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Plane Trigonometry

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...
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Elementary Algebra

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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The Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

John Gale HUN (and MAC INNES (Charles Ranald)), Charles Ranald MacInnes - Trigonometry - 1911 - 234 pages
...to 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...
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