 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1850 - 292 pages
...if we make m=0, M will be equal to 1; if w=l, M will be equal to 10, &,c. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 1 TO. Letting, as before, a denote the base... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1851 - 524 pages
...use of which we shall give some exposition of the • THEORY OF LOGARITHMS. 43. The logarithm of any given number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise some particular number in order to produce the given number. Thus, let 10 be the number raised to the... | |
 | William Smyth - Algebra - 1851 - 272 pages
...possible values of N. In this equation, x is the logarithm of N. And in general, the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise an invariable number talcen as a base, in order to produce the number. Supposing a table of logarithms... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1851 - 536 pages
...which is to add them together, we have 6"'' = nn' From this last expression, it appears that l-\-l' is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base a, in order to produce the number nn'. But nri is the product of n and n'. Hence the logarithm... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1852 - 412 pages
...Gunter's Scale, 222 ELEMENTS 0F SUEYEYIIG. BOOK I. SECTION I. OF LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the base of the system, and may be... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...radius of the inscribed circle. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY. INTKODUCTION. OF LOG.AEITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a faced number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the lase of the system,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1854 - 446 pages
...Gunter's Scale, . 233 ELEMENTS OE SUBYEYING. BOOK I. SECTION I. OP LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a faced number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the base of the system,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...of the circumscribing circle. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY. INTRODUCTION. OF LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to. raise a faced number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the base of the system,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1855 - 340 pages
...described164 ELEMENTS OF TRIGONOMETRYINTRODUCTION SECTION Ior r- 01; A KIT IIJIH1 The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first numberThis fixed number is called the base of the system, and may be... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...book, called the log-book. LOG'A-RITHM [Gr. Aoyor, ratio, and арЛцос. number]. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a nxcd number, called the base, to produce the given number. If we suppose и to preserve a constant... | |
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THE logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce the given number... 
