 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1860 - 412 pages
...form, a* = 6, « -s called an exponential equation. The object in solving this equation is, to find the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a given number a, in order to produce another given number b. 225. Suppose it were required to solve... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1861 - 322 pages
...represent the corresponding number by M, 10™ = M. Thus, if we make m = 0, M will be equal to 1 ; if m - \ M will be equal to 10, &c. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power & which it is necessary to raise lJie base of the system in win to produce the number. 176. Letting,... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - History - 1861 - 674 pages
...effected a lodgement, or the besieged destroyed the lodgements of the enemy. (See SIEGE.) LOGARITHM. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which another given invariable number must be raised in order to produce the first number. Thus in the common... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 532 pages
...ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIG0N0METRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. TRIGONOMETRY. BOOK I. LOGAEITHMS. 1. THE LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised in order to produce the first number. 2. The BASE of the system... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 518 pages
...ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATI0NS. TRIGONOMETRY. BOOK I. LOGARITHMS. 1. THE LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised in order to produce the first number. 2. The BASE of the system... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1863 - 464 pages
...trigonometry. TRIGONOMETRY MENSURATION. INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY. L 0 GA RITHMS. 1. THE LOGAEITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1863 - 432 pages
...day. Ans. 80° 6' 27". 8. At 6 o'clock p. M. of the second day. Ans. 81° 37' 43". LOGARITHMS. 399. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the Lase, must be raised, in order to produce the given number. Thus,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1863 - 504 pages
...ELEMENTS or PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATI0NS. TRIG0NOMETRY. BOOK I. LOGARITHMS. 1. THE LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised in order to produce the first number. 2. The BASE of the system... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1864 - 316 pages
...corresponding number by Ж, W" = M. Thus, if we make m — 0, Ж will be equal to 1 ; if m = 1, Ж will be equal to 10, &c. Hence, The logarithm of a...base of the system in order to produce the number. 217. If, as before, 10 denotes the base of the system of logarithms, m any exponent, and Ж the corresponding... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1864 - 444 pages
...day. Ans. 81° 37' 43". 9. At 9 o'clock p. M. of the second day. Ans. 83° 8' 35" * LOGARITHMS. 399. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the Laxe., must be raised, in order to produce the given number. Thus,... | |
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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. 
