 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1890 - 372 pages
...zero plane. HW HiJh weíer. LW Low water. , LOGAElTHMS. LOGAEITHMS. DEF1N1T1ON8 AND PR1NC1PLE8. 1. THE logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to whieh it is neeessary to raise a fixed number to produee the given number; that is to say, it represents... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...corresponding to .005 .-. Quotient, .605 The computer should use the marginal tables mentally. LOGARITHMS. Б. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given number called the base must be raised to produce the first number. If A = ¿*, a is called... | |
 | George D. Pettee - Geometry, Modern - 1896 - 272 pages
...(Cornell, Sept., 1891.) 23. Given- = -. Constructs. (Cornell, June, 1893.) x 3 APPENDIX LOGARITHMS 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which some assumed number must be raised to produce the given number. The assumed number is called the base.... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - Geometry - 1896 - 168 pages
...a side of the circumscribed equilateral triangle, the radius of the circle being ^§ LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which an assumed number must be raised to produce the first number. 2. Since logarithms are exponents, the... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Algebra - 1896 - 418 pages
...sixth term. 10. -, -, -, are in arithmetical progression. Show that abc CHAPTER XX. LOGARITHMS. 580. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, since 34... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - Plane trigonometry - 1896 - 318 pages
...9.0 corresponding to .005 .605 The computer should use the marginal tables mentally. 1 LOGARITHMS. 5. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given number called the 6ase must be raised to produce the first number. If A = e", a is called the... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 186 pages
...a side of the circumscribed equilateral triangle, the radius of the circle being ^3 LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which an assumed number must be raised to produce the first number. 2. Since logarithms are exponents, the... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 518 pages
...corresponding to .005 ... Quotient, .605 The computer should use the marginal tables mentally. LOGARITHMS. 5. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given number called the 6ase must be raised to produce the first number. If A = e°, a is called... | |
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - Electric engineering - 1897 - 696 pages
...possess polarity and attract iron. The latter arc lodestones. Synonym — Hercules Stone Logarithm. The exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce a given number. The fixed number is the base of the system. There are two systems; one,... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Electric engineering - 1898 - 1010 pages
...caused to make a permanent record ot its actual speed at any time during the entire run. Logarithm.— The exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce a given number. A table of logarithms enables the operations of multiplication,... | |
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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. 
