 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 518 pages
...is found as follows : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...is found as follows : When the number is greater than i, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Daniel Alexander Murray - Plane trigonometry - 1899 - 226 pages
...finding the characteristic : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Daniel Alexander Murray - 1906 - 466 pages
...finding the characteristic : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number... | |
 | Frederick Howland Somerville - Algebra - 1908 - 428 pages
...decimal point is 2. In general, The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. (b) When the given number is a decimal. 443. By Art. 440 (4), the characteristic of the logarithm... | |
 | John Gale Hun, Charles Ranald MacInnes - Trigonometry - 1911 - 234 pages
...left of the decimal place is n — 1 Hence, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal place. This rule obviously does not apply to the logarithms of numbers less than 1. Consider the logarithm... | |
 | Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - Algebra - 1911 - 288 pages
...determination of the characteristic we have the rules I. The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. II. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is negative and numerically one greater than... | |
 | Earle Bertram Norris, Kenneth Gardner Smith, Ralph Thurman Craigo - Arithmetic - 1913 - 234 pages
...(-whole number) part have a logarithm of 3.+, and so on, the integral part of the logarithm always being 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point in(the number. The whole number or integral part of a logarithm is called the characteristic... | |
 | Frederick Howland Somerville - Algebra - 1913 - 458 pages
...decimal point is 2. In general, The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point . (b) When the given number is a decimal. 443. By Art. 440 (4), the characteristic of the logarithm... | |
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The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is a positive integer or zero, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. 
