 | United States. War Department - Fortification, Field - 1917 - 576 pages
...service it is enough to place the corresponding part of the drawing over the station by the eye. 110. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. The base of the... | |
 | United States. War Department - Fortification, Field - 1917 - 562 pages
...it is enough to place the corresponding part of the drawing over the station by the eye. 110. Tfce logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. The base of the... | |
 | Edward Samuel Farrow - Military art and science - 1918 - 1106 pages
...hollow or cavity in the under part of the bore, where the shot rests when rammed home. Logarithm. — The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to : produce the given number. The base of... | |
 | James Thom Beard - Coal mines and mining - 1920 - 454 pages
...the roots of numbers, or raising a number to a given power by the use of logarithms. Definition. — The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number called the "base" to produce the given number. Systems of Logarithms.... | |
 | Peder Lobben - Mechanical engineering - 1922 - 512 pages
...Briggs system of logarithms has for its modulus 0.4342945, and 10 for its base. Therefore the Briggs logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which 10 must be raised in order to give the number. Thus : Log. 1=0 because 10° = 10 = 1 100 = 2 1,000... | |
 | Robert Riegel - Business - 1924 - 586 pages
...logarithms now in common use is that known as the Briggian system which utilizes 10 as a base. Since a logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given base must be raised to produce that number, it follows that under this system the logarithm... | |
 | Robert Riegel - Business - 1927 - 588 pages
...logarithms now in common use is that known as the Briggian system which utilizes 10 as a base. Since a logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given base must be raised to produce that number, it follows that under this system the logarithm... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - Surveying - 1955 - 484 pages
...1 and 2, NavPers 10069-A and 10070-A, you will probably need a brief review. REVIEW OF LOGARITHMS A logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which another number called the base must be raised to equal the given number. For example, since 53 = 125,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1891 - 312 pages
...we make m = 0, M will be equal to 1 ; if m = 1, M will be equal to 10 ; etc. Hence DKEA — 19. 289 The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 217. If, as before,... | |
 | Mathematicians - 1902 - 714 pages
...strident of mathematics and physios meets logarithms for the first time at an early stage. He is told that 'the logarithm of a number is the exponent' of the power to which a certain number, taken as the base, must be raised in order to equal the given nnmber.' The definition... | |
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The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first number. 
