 | Peder Lobben - Mechanical engineering - 1899 - 460 pages
...Briggs system of logarithms has for its modulus 0.4342945, and 10 for its base. Therefore the Briggs logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which 10 must be raised in order to give the number. Thus : Log. 1=0 because 10° = 1. " 10 = 1 " 10t = 10.... | |
 | Robert Wahl, Max Henius - Brewing - 1902 - 1288 pages
...subtract I, divide the remainder by the ratio less I, multiply the quotient by the first term. LOGARITHMS. 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. This fixed number or "base" in the common logarithms is 10, in the "Naperian"... | |
 | William Kent - Engineering - 1902 - 1204 pages
...GALLONS) IN CISTERNS AND TATiKS.— Continued. LOGARITHMS. Logarithms (abbreviation top).— The log 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 num ber is called the base. Thus if the base is 10, the log... | |
 | Thomas Ulvan Taylor, Charles Puryear - Trigonometry - 1902 - 268 pages
...343, the exponent 3 is the logarithm of 343 to the base 7. Definition. With reference to any base, the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the base must be raised to produce the given number. To ask, What is the logarithm of 1296 to the base... | |
 | Middlesex Alfred Bailey - Algebra - 1902 - 336 pages
...multiplier to produce the same result as a given number used once as a multiplier. The common definition, " The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a base must be raised to produce a given number," must be accepted in this sense. The number that is... | |
 | John William Bradshaw - 1903 - 76 pages
...student of mathematics and physios meets logarithms for the first time at an early stage. He is told that "the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain number, taken as the ba.se, must be raised in order to equal the given number." The definition... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Brookes - Horse-power (Mechanics) - 1905 - 106 pages
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words, the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers form a series in arithmetical... | |
 | Charles Westinghouse - Machine design - 1906 - 168 pages
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers form a series in arithmetical... | |
 | Calvin Franklin Swingle, Frederick John Prior - Air-brakes - 1906 - 676 pages
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers from a series in arithmetical... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Brookes - Machine-shop practice - 1906 - 664 pages
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers from a series in arithmetical... | |
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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. 
