 If the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number.  Complete School Algebra - Page 480by Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - 1919 - 507 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Fletcher Durell, Edward Rutledge Robbins - Algebra - 1897 - 482 pages
...and so on. Hence, The characteristic of a decimal number is negative, and is, numerically, one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. The characteristic of a decimal number is written in two principal ways. Thus, log .0372 = 2.5705,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Logarithms - 1897 - 384 pages
...If the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. INTRODUCTION. V If the characteristic of a given logarithm is positive, make the... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 pages
...If the given number is less than 1, make the characteristic of its logarithm negative, and one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. Thus, the characteristic of log 7849.27 is 3 ; the characteristic of log 0.037... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 436 pages
...If the number is h.ss than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one, unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. RULE 3. If the characteristic of a given logarithm is positii.e. make the number... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 112 pages
...If the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. EULE 3. If the characteristic of a given logarithm is positive, make the number... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1898 - 424 pages
...If the given number is less than 1, make the characteristic of its logarithm negative, and one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. Thus, the characteristic of log 7849.27 is 3; the characteristic of log 0.037... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1898 - 424 pages
...If the given number is less than 1, make the characteristic of its logarithm negative, and one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. Thus, the characteristic of log 7849.27 is 3 ; the characteristic of log 0.037... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 pages
...more than the number of units in the characteristic. EULE 4. If the characteristic is negative, make the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the corresponding number one less than the number of units in the characteristic. Thus, the characteristic... | |
 | Daniel Alexander Murray - Plane trigonometry - 1899 - 226 pages
...the decimal point; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. When a change is made in the position of the decimal point in a number, the value of the number is... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - Algebra - 1900 - 504 pages
...decimal point ; when the number is fe,s,4 than I. the characteristic is negative and arithmeticalli/ one greater than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Eg, 785 lies between 102 and 10» ; hence log 785 = 2 + a mantissa. Again 0.0078 lies between 10"»... | |
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