Surveyor 1 & C.

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - Surveying - 288 pages
 

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Page 76 - 1 April 1 May 1 June 1 July 1 August 1 September 1 October 1 November 1 December 1...
Page 92 - The logarithm of a product is equal to the sum of the logarithms of its factors.
Page 38 - The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number.
Page 64 - Any circle on a sphere whose plane passes through the center of the sphere is a GREAT CIRCLE.
Page 84 - The laws of plane trigonometry are three in number— the law of sines, the law of cosines, and the law of tangents.
Page 60 - The plane of the ecliptic is inclined to the plane of the equinoctial at an angle of about 23° 27'.
Page 92 - The logarithm of a fraction is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator: log a/b = log a — log b.
Page 41 - 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.
Page 41 - 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.
Page 85 - Since the sides of any triangle are proportional to the sines of the opposite angles, it appears on inspection of Fig.

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