An elementary Treatise on Logarithms

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Page 3 - The logarithm of any power of a number is equal to the logarithm of the number multiplied by the exponent of the power.
Page 17 - If the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number.
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Page 2 - The logarithm of the product of two or more numbers is equal to the sum of the logarithms of those numbers.
Page 3 - N — log. n ; from hence it appears that " the logarithm of the quotient of any two numbers is equal to the difference of their logarithms ; and that the logarithm of a fraction — is equal to the logarithm of its numerator minus the logarithm of its denominator.

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