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. A School Algebra - Page 344by George Albert Wentworth - 1891 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Raymond Curtiss, Elton James Moulton - Trigonometry - 1927 - 426 pages
...of log JV is n — 1. If the number N is less than 1 the characteristic is negative and one greater than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure in iV. From the preceding paragraphs we see that the mantissa of log N is log N' where N' is the number... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1928 - 1958 pages
...24 thousand, 1 hundred 00 and 10 million, 7 hundred 29 thousand, 3 hundred 14 hundred millionth». Zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the decimal do iiot. affect t lie rending of the numerator of the decimal but they are counted in determining... | |
| Karl John Holzinger - Education - 1928 - 396 pages
...point; while the characteristic for a number less than 1 is negative and one greater (numerically) than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. In looking up the mantissa of a number the rule is to neglect the decimal point and find the nearest... | |
| Farrington Daniels - Chemistry - 1928 - 332 pages
...even number of figures at the left of the decimal point. In case the number is less than 1, an odd number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure puts the number on the left-hand scale and an even number of zeros puts it on the right-hand scale.... | |
| Arch dams - 1938 - 286 pages
...For example, .000,012,984,18 is shown as .0* 13, 984, 18. The superior number after the zero gives the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. CONSTANTS FOR CIRCULAR ARCHES 197. Use of Table. — Quantities in table 10, Constants for Circular... | |
| Coast Artillery School (U.S.) - 1943 - 64 pages
...decimal point) . From rule 2, the characteristic of 0.01 is — 2, or 8.00000 — 10 (negative and one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure) . From rule 3, if the characteristic of a log is 4, the corresponding number has five figures in its... | |
| Physics - 1942 - 848 pages
...Sugars TABLE 128. — Method of obtaining — log T — Continued the characteristic is equal to minus the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Thus, the characteristic of T • 0.5 is 0; that of T= 0.005 (0.5 percent) is — 2; etc. EXAMPLE 1.—... | |
| United States. National Bureau of Standards. Computation Laboratory - Functions - 1954 - 232 pages
...55074 23 1.36925 25907 1 2.26068 45933 8 3.35052 45823 6 1 The number in the parentheses stands for the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. w=3 w = 3 .71109 30099 29 .27851 77335 69 (1) 10389 25650 16 1.07769 28592 7 2.76214 29619 0 5.60109... | |
| Logarithms - 1956 - 412 pages
...first significant figure is to the right of the decimal point, the characteristic is negative and is 1 more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure; eg, the characteristic of the logarithm of 0.0135 is —2. To aid in adding and subtracting logarithms... | |
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