 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 positive number,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1864 - 358 pages
...the bodies which have been describedELEMENTS OF TRIGONOMETRY, INTRODUCTIONSECTION I- ' OF LOGARITHMS1 The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to ^ohich it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order tc produce the first numberThis fixed number... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1866 - 426 pages
...Meridional Parts on Gunter's Scale, 393 ELEMENTS OF SURVEYING. BOOK I. SECTION I. OF LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to wLich ft is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1867 - 316 pages
...Thus, if we make m — 0, M will be equal to 1 ; if m — 1, M will be equal to 10, &c. Hence, Tlie logarithm, of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise th& base of the system in order to produce the number. 2 1 •?. If, as before, 1 0 denotes the base... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1868 - 386 pages
...decimal places. 2.4 2.4.9 ' O6~5.10.16 2 ~5.10.15,16 3 ~' =1.9743506. CHAPTER XX. LOGARITHMS. 394. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a constant number must be raised in order to be equal to the proposed number. The constant number is... | |
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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. 
