 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1870 - 392 pages
...will form the bodies which have been described. ELEMENTS INTRODUCTION. SECTION I. ОГ LOGARITHM». 1. 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. This fixed number is called the base of the system, and may be... | |
 | Charles Davies - Leveling - 1871 - 448 pages
...the Surface 268 ELEMENTS OF SURVEYING. BOOK I. LOGARITHMS AND TRIGONOMETRY. SECTION I. LOGARITHMS. 1. THE 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,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1871 - 404 pages
...logarithm of that number ; and a is called the base of the system in which the logarithm is taken. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to ivhich it is necessary to raise the base, in order to produce the given number. The logarithms of all... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1872 - 464 pages
...spherical trigonometry. b TRIGONOMETRY AND MENSURATION. INTR0DUCTI0N T0 TRIG0N0METRY. LOGARITHMS. 1. THB 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1873 - 396 pages
...seven decimal places. 2.4 2.4.9 ' ' 5.16 5.10.168 5.10.15.163 = 1.9743506. CHAPTEE 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
