 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
 | Max Fogiel, Research and Education Association - Mathematics - 1984 - 1112 pages
...common logarithm of any positive number smaller than 1 is negative and is obtained by adding one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first digit. The mantissa is obtained by looking it up in a table of common logarithms. For .3, the characteristic... | |
 | Research and Education Association - Study Aids - 1985 - 346 pages
...characteristic of the common logarithm of any positive number less than 1 is negative and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first digit. To find the mantissa, see a table of common logarithms of numbers. If we proceed with the arithmetic... | |
 | Daley - Science - 1988 - 500 pages
...the left of the decimal point. For numbers less than 1 the characteristic is negative and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first digit to the right of the decimal point. Negative characteristics are written in either of two ways.... | |
 | Mathematics - 356 pages
...characteristic of the common logarithm of any positive number less than 1 is negative and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first digit. To find the mantissa, see a table of common logarithms of numbers. characteristic Thus for log... | |
 | J.V. Subrahmanyan - 2004 - 1128 pages
...1000 x 0.30103 = - 301.03 = - 302 + (1 - .03) = - 302 + . 97 = 302.97 (v Mantissa must be positive).'. The number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant number is 302-1 = 301. (14) Prove that log! 0 2 lies between - and т« ,* Solution : To prove that... | |
 | United States. War Department - 190 pages
...rule which must be memorized: The characteristics of the logarithms of numbers between zero and one is negative, and numerically one greater than the...number of zeros between the decimal point and the first nonzero digit. Example: The characteristic of log .0058 is (—3), that of log .68 is (—1), and that... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Reclamation - Land use - 598 pages
...lues have several zeros following the decimal point. In such cases, as explained in a evious section, the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant :ure is designated by a superior number; for example, 0.000,015,4 is written 0.04154. In the lower... | |
 | S D JEYASEELAN - Mathematics - 1993 - 470 pages
...point and is positive. (»'/') For a number less than one, the characteristic is the number, one more, than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first non-zero digit in the number expressed as a decimal and it is negative. Problem Set С (1) Write down... | |
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