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" 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. "
Technical Manual - Page 125
by United States. War Department
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An elementary Treatise on Logarithms

William Henry Johnstone - 1859 - 80 pages
...the natural number have no integer places, then the characteristic is a negative quantity one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. 31. Hence, referring to the table given above we shall find: log 295-24 = 2-4701752...
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Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

George Albert Wentworth - Trigonometry - 1882 - 232 pages
...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. INTRODUCTION. If the characteristic of a given logarithm is...
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Five-place Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables

George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - Logarithms - 1883 - 186 pages
...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. IV INTRODUCT1ON. If the characteristic of a given logarithm...
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Plane Trigonometry and Tables

George Albert Wentworth - Plane trigonometry - 1885 - 96 pages
...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. 1V INTKODUCTION. If the characteristic of a given logarithm...
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Elements of Algebra

George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1886 - 168 pages
...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. INTRODUCTION. If the characteristic of a given logarithm is...
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Plane Trigonometry

George Albert Wentworth - 1887 - 206 pages
...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. iv LOGARITHMS. For, 10° = 1, hence log 1 = 0; 10-»= 0.1,...
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A Higher Algebra

George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1891 - 544 pages
...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. RULE 3. If the characteristic of a given logarithm is positive,...
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A School Algebra

George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1891 - 380 pages
...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. RULE 3. If the characteristic of a given logarithm is positive,...
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Five-place Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables

George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - Logarithms - 1895 - 104 pages
...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. If the characteristic of a given logarithm is positive, make...
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Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables: Five Decimal Places

Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. 11. To avoid the use of negative characteristics we add io to the characteristic...
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