 | Silas Totten - Algebra - 1836 - 332 pages
...decimals, will be the same, with the exception of the characteristic, which will always be one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. For example; taking the number 654685, and dividing it successively by 10, and for each division subtracting... | |
 | Thomas Tate (mathematical master.) - 1848 - 284 pages
...2-60906, where 2 is the characteristic and -60906 is the mantissa. As the characteristic is always 1 less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number, the logarithm given in the tables is only the decimal part of the required logarithm, and the integral... | |
 | Sydney Lupton - Chemistry - 1882 - 374 pages
...=2, 1000 = 102, log 1000 = 3. Hence the characteristic for a number greater than unity is one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. When a characteristic is negative the minus sign is written over and not before the characteristic,... | |
 | John Bascombe Lock - Logarithms - 1896 - 242 pages
...following rule : RULE. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. The characteristic of a number less than unity is negative, and (when the number is expressed as a... | |
 | John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - Algebra - 1911 - 698 pages
...lies between 2 and 3 ; ie it equals 2 + some decimal, and so on. Therefore, If a number is greater than 1, the characteristic of its logarithm is positive,...2. Again, a number less than 1, and having no zero immediately following the decimal point, lies between 10° and 10"1. Hence, the logarithm lies between... | |
 | John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - Algebra - 1913 - 330 pages
...lies between 2 and 3 ; ie it equals 2 + some decimal, and so on. Therefore, If a number is greater than 1, the characteristic of its logarithm is positive,...figures in the integral part of the number. Thus, in log 0841.27, the characteristic is 3. In log 302.781, the characteristic is 2. Again, a number less than... | |
 | Earle Bertram Norris, Kenneth Gardner Smith, Ralph Thurman Craigo - Arithmetic - 1913 - 234 pages
...Then point off the answer by means of the characteristic. Remember that the characteristic is 1 less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. Example : Find the antilog of 2.6639, or in other words, find the number of which 2.6639 is the logarithm.... | |
 | Samuel Marx Barton - Surveying - 1913 - 284 pages
...logarithm : (a) If the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and numerically one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. (b) If the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative and numerically one more than the... | |
 | Electric apparatus and appliances - 1915 - 662 pages
...3 and in line with 37. The number there found is 572 and the characteristic is 1 which is one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number 37.26. Logarithms obtained in this way are accurate enough for the purposes herein required. TABLE... | |
 | Julius Lederer Neufeld - Algebra - 1920 - 412 pages
...following rule : The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than 1 is positive and 1 less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. Note that it is the integral part of the logarithm which is called the characteristic. An ordinary... | |
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... decimal, and so on. Therefore, If a number is greater than 1, the characteristic of its logarithm is positive, and is less by 1 than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. Thus, in log 6841.27, the characteristic is 3. 
