 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - Science - 1883 - 360 pages
...log,0(e~') from x = o'i to x= ю'о at intervals of o'i. The numbers in parentheses denote the numbers of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure; for example, e~'°= 0-0000453999298. X Ь&.И ef e~* logw(e-*) 5'i 2-21490 18577 164- 021 907 (2)609 674... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 318 pages
...would be —3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater, than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1833 - 436 pages
...as a whole number, and then prefixing to its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures. 19. To find, in the ta^le, a number answering to a given logarithm. Search, in the... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...and then prefixing to the decimal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic, greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures. Thus, the logarithm of .0412, is 2.614897. PROBLEM. To find from the table, a number... | |
 | Logarithms - 1836 - 192 pages
...would be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant place of figures ; therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...would be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it ' as a whole number, and... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...would be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and then... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1841 - 414 pages
...would be — 3. It is, indeed, evident, that the negative characteristic will always be one greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and then... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1845 - 382 pages
...logarithm of its numerator, regarded as a whole number, a negative characteristic greater by unity than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. To demonstrate this in a general manner, let a denote the numerator of a decimal fraction, and b its... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1852 - 408 pages
...of .01 is — 2, of .001 is — 3, and so on ; therefore, The characteristic of the logarithm of a decimal fraction is a negative number, and is one more than the number of zeros immediately following the decimal point. ART. 365. To explain the principk generally, by meant... | |
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FRACTION is a negative number, and is one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. 
