 The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is a positive integer or zero, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point.  Intermediate Algebra - Page 243by Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - 1916 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Howland Somerville - Algebra - 1913 - 458 pages
...decimal point is 2. In general, The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point . (b) When the given number is a decimal. 443. By Art. 440 (4), the characteristic of the logarithm... | |
 | Claude Irwin Palmer, Charles Wilbur Leigh - Plane trigonometry - 1914 - 308 pages
...characteristic are evident: (1) When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. (2) When the number is less than 1 and expressed decimally the characteristic is negative, and is one more... | |
 | William G. Raymond - Surveying - 1914 - 622 pages
...decimal places. The whole number, called the characteristic, varies. The characteristic is always I less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point of the number whose logarithm is being found. In the tables only the mantissas are given. The... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Railroad engineering - 1915 - 572 pages
...decimal places. The whole number, called the characteristic, varies. The characteristic is always I less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point of the number whose logarithm is being found. In the tables only the mantissas are given. The... | |
 | Claude Irwin Palmer, Charles Wilbur Leigh - Logarithms - 1916 - 348 pages
...characteristic are evident: (1) When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. (2) When the number is less than 1 and expressed decimally the characteristic is negative, and is one more... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - Algebra - 1917 - 674 pages
...and move the decimal point 4 places to the left. 292. Rule for Finding the Characteristic. (1) Far numbers greater than 1, the characteristic is positive...than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point(2) For numbers less than 1, the characteristic is negative and numerically one greater than the... | |
 | Ernst Rudolph Breslich - Logarithms - 1917 - 408 pages
....001=-3,etc. The table on p. 137 shows the following: The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is negative and one greater numerically than the... | |
 | Raymond Benedict McClenon - Functions - 1918 - 264 pages
...0, of a number between 10 and 100 is 1, of a number between 100 and 1000 is 2, and, in general, is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. But if there are no significant figures to the left of the decimal point (that is, if the antilogarithm... | |
 | Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - Algebra - 1919 - 536 pages
...a positive number we have the following rules: I. The characteristic of a number greater than 1 is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. n. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is negative and numerically one greater than the... | |
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