 | Leonard Magruder Passano - Trigonometry - 1918 - 330 pages
...logarithm of any number greater than 1 may be determined as follows : RULE I. The characteristic, of any number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits before the decimal point. The following table, which is taken from § 1, p. v, shows that the logarithm... | |
 | Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - Algebra - 1919 - 536 pages
...decimal. For the determination of the characteristic of a positive number we have the following rules: I. The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is one...than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. n. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is negative and numerically one greater than the... | |
 | John Wesley Young, Frank Millett Morgan - Plane trigonometry - 1923 - 154 pages
...equal to 2 + a decimal, etc. We conclude, therefore, that the characteristic of the common logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits at the left of the decimal point. Thus, logio 456.07 =2.65903. The case of a logarithm of a number... | |
 | Alfred Monroe Kenyon, Louis Ingold - Plane trigonometry - 1919 - 306 pages
...logarithm of any number greater than 1 may be determined as follows : RULE I. The characteristic of any number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits before the decimal point. The following table, which is taken from § 1, p. v, shows that the logarithm... | |
 | James Atkins Bullard, Arthur Kiernan - Trigonometry - 1922 - 252 pages
...and less than 1000 is 2; etc. RULE. — The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Considering the numbers less than 1, we observe that a number equal to or greater than 0.1 and... | |
 | Walter Burton Ford - Algebra - 1922 - 286 pages
...than 1; hence we may state the following general rule. RULE II. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of figures to the left of the decimal point. Thus, the characteristic of log 385.9 is 2; that of log 8.679... | |
 | Robert Riegel - Business - 1924 - 586 pages
...characteristic is 2, etc. We therefore derive the following rule: 1. The characteristic of the log of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of figures preceding the decimal point. Characteristic of 1=0. 10 = 1. 100 = 2. 1000 = 3. etc. We have... | |
 | Lewis Parker Siceloff, David Eugene Smith - Algebra - 1924 - 274 pages
...Characteristic. From the discussion in § 146 it is obvious that 1. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of integral places in the number. 2. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number between 0 and 1 is... | |
 | George Irving Gavett - Statistics - 1925 - 378 pages
...will show that, necessarily, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 will be one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number less than 1 will be negative, and numerically one greater than the number... | |
 | Robert Riegel - Business - 1927 - 588 pages
...characteristic is 2, etc. We therefore derive the following rule: 1. The characteristic of the log of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of figures preceding the decimal point. Characteristic of 1=0. 10 = 1. 100 = 2. 1000 = 3. etc. We have... | |
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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. 
