 | Karl John Holzinger - Education - 1928 - 396 pages
...characteristic. The general rule for determining the characteristic of a logarithm may now be stated as follows: The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is one...than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; while the characteristic for a number less than 1 is negative and one greater (numerically)... | |
 | Karl John Holzinger - Education - 1928 - 396 pages
...for determining the characteristic of a logarithm may now be stated as follows: The cliaracteristic of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point; while the characteristic for a number less than 1 is negative and one greater (numerically)... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - Surveying - 1955 - 484 pages
...of a logarithm. 1. The characteristic of the logarithm of all numbers GREATER than 1 is POSITIVE and is ONE LESS than the number of digits to the LEFT of the decimal point. 2. The characteristic of the logarithm of all numbers LESS than 1 is NEGATIVE and is ONE GREATER... | |
 | Logarithms - 1956 - 412 pages
...table I, find the logarithm of 1026.17. a. By examination, the characteristic of the logarithm is 3 (1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point). b. Examine table I for the number 102617 (fig. 7). It does not appear in the table. Therefore,... | |
 | University of Michigan Computing Center - IBM 360 (Computer) - 1979 - 278 pages
...END; COMMENT *** D stands for the number of digits to the right of the decimal point. N stands for the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. The field width R_W is the sum of N+D+1, where 1 is for the decimal point; PROCEDURE ALIGNED (INTEGER VALUE... | |
 | Max Fogiel, Research and Education Association - Mathematics - 1984 - 1112 pages
...adjust the decimal point, we note that the characteristic is 0. Since the characteristic is positive, it is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Here, there is one digit to the left of the decimal point. Thus, the number is 6.163, and x... | |
 | Research and Education Association - Study Aids - 1985 - 346 pages
...the characteristic 1, we have 2.72 X 10' = 27.2. Note that the characteristic is positive, (1) , and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Thus there are two digits to the left of the decimal point , (27) . • PROBLEM 21-27 5 Find... | |
 | Daley - Science - 1988 - 500 pages
...characteristic is determined by the application of two rules. For a number greater than 1 the characteristic is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. For numbers less than 1 the characteristic is negative and is one more than the number of zeros... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1992 - 270 pages
...the characteristic, and the decimal part is called the mantissa. (1) The characteristic of any number is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Thus, the characteristic for the number 3 is 1 — 1 or zero, since there is one number to the... | |
 | Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Steven Black - Computers - 1998 - 996 pages
...Optionally, the length and number of decimal places of the field may be specified. If the length is less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal place, one of two things happens. If the number is less than 10 billion or the specified size is less... | |
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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. 
