 | Daniel Barnard Hagar - Algebra - 1873 - 278 pages
...Find the square of a - b+y. Ans. a? 3. Find the square of a — b — c. SECTION Lll. LOGARITHMS. 391. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a constant number must be involved to produce the given number. Thus, if 8 is the constant number,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1874 - 464 pages
...spherical trigonometry. TRIGONOMETRY AND MENSURATION. INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY. LOGARITHMS. 1. TUB LOGARITHM 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 positive number,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1874 - 500 pages
...0 INTRODUCTION TO TRIG( LOGARITHMS. rYORK ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDE* FOUNDATIONS 1899 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 positive number,... | |
 | Carl Bremiker - Logarithms - 1875 - 544 pages
...common logarithm of a number (which kind of logarithms is exclusively used for purposes of computation) is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the number 10 in order to produce the given number. Thus, if the exponents are a and I, and if we put... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Algebra - 1875 - 348 pages
...system. 186. If we denote any positive number, except 1, by a, any positive number whatever by n, and the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a, in order to produce n, by x, we shall have the exponential equation, a* = n (1) In this equation, a... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Conic sections - 1876 - 412 pages
...proved. TRIGONOMETRY. I. INTRODUCTION— USE OF LOGARITHMS. DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS. 1. The common logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise 10 to produce the given number ; thus, 2 is the logarithm of 100, because 102 = 100. NOTE. — The... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Trigonometry - 1876 - 204 pages
...ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIG0N0METRY; PRA6TI6AL APPLI6ATI0NS. 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... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 916 pages
...sometimes called the logistic »piral. WG PECK. Logarithms [Gr. Aóyocand¿pi0póc]. The logarithm uf 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 Ъпя«. Thus, in the equation 10s =»1000,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Algebra - 1878 - 322 pages
...ratio of f each second to infinity. Through what space would it move ? CHAPTER XIX. LOGARITHMS.* 436. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised to produce that number. 437. This Fixed Number is called the Base... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1879 - 346 pages
...geometrical progres sion are 1 and 128, respectively, required the series. APPENDIX. LOGARITHMS. S50. The LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which some constant number, called the base, must be raised to equal the number. Thus, suppose crc=nj, then... | |
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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. 
