 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1837 - 336 pages
...equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the numerator by the denominator, its logarithm will be equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. Therefore, log yTy=log 3678— log 100 = 3.565612—2 = 1.565612 from which we see, that a mixed number... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the numerator by the denominator, its logarithm will be equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. Therefore, log VoV=l°g 3678 — log 100 = 3.565612 — 2 = 1.565612 from which we see, that a mixed... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 380 pages
...equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the numerator by the denominator, its logarithm will be equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. Therefore, log VW=log 3678 — log 100 = 3.565612 — 2 = 1.565612 from which we see, that a mixed... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1841 - 406 pages
...greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering it as a whole number, and then prefixing to the deci. mal part of its logarithm a negative characteristic greater by unity than the number of ciphers... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1835 - 359 pages
...equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the numerator by the denominator, its logarithm will be equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. Therefore, log VlV=log »878 — log 100 = 3.565012 — 2 = 1.565612 from which we see, that a mixed... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845
...is the logarithm of that is to say, The logarithm of a fraction, or of the quotient of two numbers, is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. III. Raise both members of equation (1) to the power of n. N" =a" „•. by def. (2), nx is the logarithm... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 244 pages
...Divide equation (1) by (2), N_a* N' a* The logarithm of a fraction, or of the quotient of two numbers, is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. III. Raise both members of equation (1) to the power of n. N" =a" .*. by def. (2), na; is the logarithm... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 896 pages
...Divide equation (1) by (2), N_o*_ N'~^ The logarithm of a fraction, or of the quotient of two numbers, is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. III. Raise both members of equation (1) to the power of n. Nn =a" .-. by def. (2), nx is the logarithm... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1846 - 388 pages
...greater than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Therefore, the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found, by considering...than the number of ciphers between the decimal point ana the first significant figure. That we may not, for a moment, suppose the negative sign to belong... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1846 - 346 pages
...16000 = log. 1600 = 4i + 2, log. 160000 =, &c. We have seeri, in Art. 323, that the logarithm of a fraction is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. Hence, log. (y) = log. 5 = 1 — x. Hence, log. 50 = 2 — x, log. 5000 = log. 500 =3 — x, log. 50000... | |
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... the logarithm of a fraction is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator. 
