 | International Correspondence Schools - Engineering - 1904 - 392 pages
...has an integral part, the number of ciphers following the decimal point in the reciprocal will be cue less than the number of figures in the integral part of the given number; and if the given number is entirely decimal, the number of figures in the integral part... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Plumbing - 1905 - 448 pages
...has an integral part, the number of ciphers following the decimal point in the reciprocal will be one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the given number; and if the given number is entirely decimal, the number of figures in the integral part... | |
 | Earle Bertram Norris, Kenneth Gardner Smith, Ralph Thurman Craigo - Arithmetic - 1913 - 234 pages
...figures. Then point off the answer by means of the characteristic. Remember that the characteristic is 1 less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. Example : Find the antilog of 2.6639, or in other words, find the number of which 2.6639 is... | |
 | Samuel Marx Barton - Surveying - 1913 - 284 pages
...logarithm : (a) If the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and numerically one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. (b) If the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative and numerically one more than... | |
 | Electric apparatus and appliances - 1915 - 662 pages
...headed 3 and in line with 37. The number there found is 572 and the characteristic is 1 which is one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number 37.26. Logarithms obtained in this way are accurate enough for the purposes herein required.... | |
 | Julius Lederer Neufeld - Algebra - 1920 - 412 pages
...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 the integral part of the logarithm which is called the characteristic. An ordinary... | |
 | William Raymond Longley, Harry Brooks Marsh - Algebra - 1926 - 608 pages
...characteristic and the decimal part is called the mantissa. The characteristic of a logarithm is always one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the given number. Thus the characteristic of log 64 is 1 ; characteristic of log 523 is 2 ; characteristic... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Steam engineering - 1913 - 344 pages
...significant figures. The number of ciphers following the decimal point in the reciprocal of a number is 1 less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number; and if the number is entirely decimal, the number of figures in the integral part of the reciprocal... | |
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The whole numbers or integers in the logarithmic series are hence easily obtained, being always a unit less than the number of figures in the integral part of the corresponding natural number. 
