 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1833 - 436 pages
...this number by the numbers that have been considered as ciphers : then, cut off from the right-hand as many places for decimals as there are figures in...logarithm of 672887. The log. of 672800 is found, on the llth page of the table, to be 5.827886, by prefixing the characteristic 5. The number corresponding... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 359 pages
...and prefix a characteristic which shall be one less than the number of places including the ciphers. Take from the last column on the right of the page,...add the product, so obtained, to the first logarithm : this sum will be the logarithm sought. Let it be required to find the logarithm of 672887. The log.... | |
 | Logarithms - 1836 - 177 pages
...this number- by the numbers that have been considered as ciphers : then, cut off from the right-hand as many places for decimals as there are figures in...logarithm of 672887. The log. of 672800 is found, on the l'lth page of the table, to be 6.827886, by prefixing the characteristic 5. The number corresponding... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1837 - 336 pages
...the number on the same horizontal line with the logarithm, and multiply this number by the figures that have been considered as ciphers : then cut off...add the product so obtained to the first logarithm, and the sum will be the logarithm sought. Let it be required, for example, to find the logarithm of... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 380 pages
...the number on the same horizontal line with the logarithm, and multiply this number by the figures that have been considered as ciphers : then cut off...add the product so obtained to the first logarithm, and the sum will be the logarithm sought. •Let it be- required, for example, to find the logarithm... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...the number on the same horizontal line with the logarithm, and multiply this number by the figures that have been considered as ciphers : then cut off...add the product so obtained to the first logarithm, and the sum will be the logarithm sought. Let it be required, for example, to find the logarithm of... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 305 pages
...Write the numbers under each other according to their value, add as in ii'linli: numbers, and point off" from the right hand as many places for decimals, as there are in either of the numbers. 2. Add together the following numbers — 81.61356, 6716.31, 413.1678956,35.14671,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1835 - 359 pages
...the number on the same horizontal line with the logarithm, and multiply this number by the figures that have been considered as ciphers : then cut off...add the product so obtained to the first logarithm, and the sum will be the logarithm sought. Let it be required, for example, to find the logarithm of... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 314 pages
...RULE. Write the numbers under each other according to their value, add as in whole numbers, and point off from the right hand- as many places for decimals, as there are in either of the numbers. 2. Add together the following numbers — 31.61356, 6716.31, 413.1678956,35.14671,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1844 - 210 pages
...RULE. Write the numbers under each other according to their value, add as in whole numbers, and point off" from the right hand as many places for decimals, as there are in that number, which contains the greatest number of decimals. «. Add together 171.61111 ; -16.7101... | |
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... from the right hand as many places for decimals as there are figures in the multiplier, and add the product, so obtained, to the first logarithm, for the logarithm sought. 
