 The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than 1 is always one less than the number of digits preceding the decimal point.  Elementary Algebra - Page 348by Walter Randall Marsh - 1905 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Victor Collins - Algebra - 1911 - 330 pages
...for its logarithm 0 + a decimal, because its logarithm must lie between 0 and 1. Hence, generally 3. The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than 1 is one less than the number of its integral orders. Thus, the characteristic of the logarithm of 729.4... | |
 | Joseph Victor Collins - Algebra - 1913 - 362 pages
...for its logarithm 0 + a decimal, because its logarithm must lie between 0 and 1. Hence, generally 3. The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than 1 is one less than the number of its integral orders. Thus, the characteristic of the logarithm of 729.4... | |
 | George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - Arithmetic - 1919 - 268 pages
...0.3717. Finding the Characteristic. For reasons given hereafter, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is always one less than the number of integral places. Hence the logarithm of a number between 1000 and 10,000 lies between 3 and 4, and... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1919 - 266 pages
...0.3717. Finding the Characteristic. For reasons given hereafter, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is always one less than the number of integral places. Hence the logarithm of a number between 1000 and 10,000 lies between 3 and 4, and... | |
 | Julius Lederer Neufeld - Algebra - 1920 - 412 pages
...number having three figures in the whole number is 2 plus some decimal. Hence, the following rule : The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than 1 is positive and 1 less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. Note that it is... | |
 | Lloyd Leroy Smail - Finance - 1925 - 338 pages
...table, we see that for numbers greater than 1 the characteristic is determined by the following rule: I. The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than 1 is positive and is one less than the number of digits in the integral part of the number, or to the left... | |
 | Charles Walmsley - History - 1926 - 316 pages
...1-302 = .1146, then log 130-2 = 2-1146, log -001302 = 3-1146. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is always one less than the...decimal point ; the characteristic of the logarithm of a number less than 1 is always negative, and is numerically one more than the number of zeros immediately... | |
 | 316 pages
...1-302 = "1146, then log 130-2 = 2-1146, log '001302 = 31146. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is always one less than the...decimal point ; the characteristic of the logarithm of a number less than 1 is always negative, and is numerically one more than the number of zeros immediately... | |
 | American Institute of Actuaries - Insurance - 1914 - 640 pages
...log. 13 = 1.11394; log. 14=1.14613, ; find log. 13 . 28. 12. In common logarithms, the characteristic is always one less than the number of digits preceding the decimal point, and for any given sequence of numbers the mantissa is the same for all positions of the decimal point.... | |
 | Rehana Khan - Bioengineering - 2007 - 328 pages
...the latter has to be obtained from the logarithm tables given at the end of the book. Characteristic. The characteristic of the logarithm of any number greater than 1 is positive and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point in the given number.... | |
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