 | William Smyth - Algebra - 1830 - 278 pages
...these numbers ; this would be a table of logarithms. We define the logarithm of a number therefore, the exponent of the power, to which it is necessary to raise a given or invariable number, in order to produce the proposed number. Thus in the equation a* = y, xk... | |
 | Bourdon (M., Louis Pierre Marie) - Algebra - 1831 - 446 pages
...number, to form all these numbers, an idea will be had cf a table of logarithms. The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the power, to which it is necessary to raisj a certain invariable number, in order to produce the first number. The invariable number may... | |
 | Bourdon (M., Louis Pierre Marie) - Algebra - 1831 - 326 pages
...numbers; we shall then have an idea of a table of logarithms. We generally call the logarithm of a number the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a certain invariable number, in order to produce the first number. The invariable number may at first... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1835 - 378 pages
...to form all these numbers, an idea will be had of a table of logarithms. Hence, The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a certain invariable number, in order to produce thefirst number. Any number, except 1, may be taken... | |
 | Algebra - 1838 - 372 pages
...to form all these numbers, an idea will be had of a table of logarithms, Hence, The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a certain invariable number, in order to produce thefrst number. Any number, except 1, may be taken for... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1838 - 328 pages
...which we shall give a tolerably full exposition of the THEORY OF LOGARITHMS. 43. The logarithm of any given number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise some particular number in order to produce the given number. Thus, let 10 be the number raised to the... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1838 - 338 pages
...which is to add them together, we have aw' = nri From this last expression, it appears that / -f- I' is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base a, in order to produce the number nri. But nri is the product of n and n. Hence the logarithm... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1842 - 368 pages
...to form all these numbers, an idea will be had of a table of logarithms. Hence, The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a certain invariable number, in order to produce thefirst number. Any number, except 1, may be taken... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1842 - 284 pages
...if we make m=0, M will be equal to 1; if wi=l, M will be equal to 10, &.C. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 1 76. Letting, as before, a denote the base... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1845 - 382 pages
...the invariable number a is called the bose of that system of logarithms. Hence, The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise an invariable number, called the base of the system, in order to produce the number. The general properties... | |
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THE logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce the given number... 
