 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...table of logarithms. Thus, for all numbers between 1 and 10, the characteristic is 0 : for numbers between 10 and 100 it is 1, between 100 and 1000 it is 2, &c. PROBLEM. To find from the table the logarithm of any number. ' t CASE I. When the number is less... | |
 | Charles Davies - Trigonometry - 1849 - 372 pages
...the table of logarithms. Thus, for alt numbers between 1 and 10. the characteristic is 0: tor numbers between 10 and 100 it is 1, between 100 and 1000 it in 2, <fcc. PROBLEM. To find from the table the logarithm of any number. CASE I. When the number is... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1873 - 354 pages
...negative and numerically one greater than the number of O's immediately following the decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of any number between 1 and 10 is 0, between 10 and 100 1, between 100 and 1000 2, etc. Or let it be asked, " What is the characteristic of the logarithm of... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1878 - 360 pages
...negative and numerically one greater than the number of 0'« immediately following the decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of any number between 1 and 10 is 0, between 10 and 100 1, between 100 and 1000 2, etc. Or let it be asked, " What is the characteristic of the logarithm of... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1880 - 354 pages
...negative and numerically one greater than the number of O's immediately following the decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of any number between 1 and 10 is 0, between 10 and 100 1, between 100 and 1000 2, etc. Or let it be asked, " What is the characteristic of the logarithm of... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1882 - 358 pages
...negative and numerically one greater than the number of 0'« immediately following the decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of any number between 1 and 10 is 0, between 10 and 100 1, between 100 and 1000 2, etc. Or let it be asked, " What is the characteristic of the logarithm of... | |
 | David Raymond Curtiss, Elton James Moulton - Trigonometry - 1927 - 426 pages
...logarithm of any number between 1 and 10 lies between log 1 and log 10, that is, between 0 and 1. Hence, the characteristic of the logarithm of any number between 1 and 10 is 0. To get a general rule for finding the characteristic let us first recall from arithmetic that by units'... | |
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... immediately following the decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of any number between 1 and 10 is 0, between 10 and 100 1, between 100 and 1000 2, etc. Or let it be asked, " What is the characteristic of the logarithm of 5126 ? "... 