 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1908 - 386 pages
...or zero plane. HW Hi9h watet. LW Low watet. LOGAE1THMS. LOGAKITHMS. DEFINITIONS AND PRINCIPLES. 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; that is to say, it represents the number of times a fixed number must... | |
 | 1910 - 620 pages
...subtraction, and the raising to powers and extraction of roots by multiplication and division of the former. 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. Thus in the equation 103 = 1,000,... | |
 | American Steel & Wire Co - Electric cables - 1910 - 246 pages
...device for measuring the speed of, or the distance traversed by, a vessel. Logarithm. The exponent, or the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number called the base, in order to produce a given number. Long-distance Transmission. Transmission of Electrical electric... | |
 | William Kent - Mechanical engineering - 1910 - 1620 pages
...TANKS. — Continued. LOGARITHMS. Logarithms (abbreviation log). — The log of a number is the expra^ of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produc the given number. The fixed number is called the bane. Thus it IS base is 10, the log of... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 646 pages
...19,050. Logarithm, a mathematical term. The logarithm of a number is the extoggia ^^ ponent of tfoe power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, called the base, to produce the givea number. Loggia, on Italian word signifying an open arcade enclosing a passage... | |
 | United States. War Department - Military field engineering - 1912 - 580 pages
...service it is enough to place the corresponding part of the drawing over the station by the eye. ПО. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. The base of the... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1912 - 580 pages
...service it is enough to place the corresponding part of the drawing over the station by the eye. 110. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. The base of the... | |
 | Franklin Turner Jones, Robert Richardson Tatnall - Physics - 1912 - 112 pages
...scales. The 1 line of each scale is called the " index." FIG. 9. — The Slide Rule Since the common logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which 10 must be raised to equal the number, the spaces on these scales correspond to exponents. To multiply... | |
 | Charles William Berry - Thermodynamics - 1913 - 424 pages
...2748. .0464 689.1 164.3 853.4 .8825 .1429 698 2882. 0 0 o HYPERBOLIC OR NAPERIAN LOGARITHMS. THE log of a number is the exponent of the power to which...it is necessary to raise a fixed number, called the base, to produce the given number. In the common logs the base is 10 and in the Naperian logs the base,... | |
 | Horace Wilmer Marsh - Mathematics - 1913 - 518 pages
...of another number which is called the base of the system. Therefore the definition of a logarithm: The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the base of the system must be raised to equal the number. In the system of logarithms in common use,... | |
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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. 
