 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Navigation - 1866 - 192 pages
...0,0391 is 8.59218; the logarithm of 055 is 9.39794; the lugarithm of 0.0000025. is 4.39794, &c. To find the logarithm of a vulgar fraction. RULE. Subtract...the index when the denominator is the greatest); the temainder will be the logarithm of the fraction sought. EXAMPLE I. Required the logarithm of ¡. From... | |
 | Carl Bruhns - Logarithms - 1870 - 646 pages
...number 59,487321. §.6. If the logarithm to a fraction is required, we may proceed in two ways, either subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator or convert the fraction into a decimal and find the logarithm to it in the manner pointed out above.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Trigonometry - 1876 - 204 pages
...decimal, and find its logarithm, tut in Art. 24; or, since a fraction is an expression of division, subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator, and the difference will be the logarithm of the fraction (Art. 10). Thus, the logarithm of |, or .75,... | |
 | Nautical astronomy - 1880 - 880 pages
...0,0391 is 8.59218; the logarithm of 0.25 is 9.39794; tho logarithm of 0.0000025 is 4.39794, &c, To find the logarithm of a vulgar fraction. RULE. Subtract...in the index when the denominator is the greatest); tho femainder will be the logarithm of the fraction sought. EXAMPLE I. Required the logarithm of Í.... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1888 - 704 pages
...0.0391 is 8.59218; the logarithm of 0.25 is 9-39794! 'he logarithm of 0.0000025 is 4-39794, &c. To find the logarithm of a vulgar fraction. « RULE. Subtract...will be the logarithm of the fraction sought. EXAMPLE I. EXAMPLE II. Required the logarithm of f . Required the logarithm of 3^, or -VJ1. From log. of 3... | |
 | John Bernard Clarke - Algebra - 1889 - 566 pages
...as the mantissa of the logarithm of the numerator. To find the logarithm of a common fraction we may subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator, or we may reduce the fraction to a decimal and then take the logarithm as here indicated. 530. The... | |
 | Carl Bruhns - Logarithms - 1889 - 660 pages
...number 59,487321. §.6. If the logarithm to a fraction is required, we may proceed in two ways, either subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator or convert the fraction into a decimal and find the logarithm to it in the manner pointed out above.... | |
 | Heinrich Borchert Lübsen - Algebra - 1897 - 364 pages
...Thus we have : loR- T\=IO&- 0.4375=°.64°9781— 1 or, =1.6409781 Frequently it is more convenient to subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator, as the following example shows : log. 7=0.8450980 " 16=1.2041200 log. T\=1. 6409780 Here we have a... | |
 | Karl John Holzinger - Education - 1928 - 396 pages
...9.7345-10 and 9.8205-10, giving 9.5550-10. To complete the calculation for r 12. 3 it is only necessary to subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator (9.8922 — 10 in column (6)), and look up the corresponding number, or anti-logarithm (.780 in column... | |
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To find the logarithm of a vulgar fraction. RULE. Subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator... 
