 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1867 - 188 pages
...QUADRANT 17 ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. TBJGONOMETRY. BOOK I. LOGARITHMS. 1. THE LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised in order to produce the first number. 2. The BASE of the system... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1868 - 386 pages
...decimal places. 2.4 2.4.9 ' O6~5.10.16 2 ~5.10.15,16 3 ~' =1.9743506. CHAPTER XX. LOGARITHMS. 394. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a constant number must be raised in order to be equal to the proposed number. The constant number is... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1869 - 516 pages
...ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. i* TRIGONOMETRY. BOOK I. L0GARITHMS. 1. THE LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised in order to produce the first number. 2. The BASE of the system... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1870 - 392 pages
...will form the bodies which have been described. ELEMENTS INTRODUCTION. SECTION I. ОГ LOGARITHM». 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,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Leveling - 1871 - 448 pages
...Traverse on the Surface 268 ELEMENTS OF SURVEYING. BOOK I. LOGARITHMS AND TRIGONOMETRY. SECTION I. LOGARITHMS. 1. 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. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any positive... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1871 - 404 pages
...logarithm of that number ; and a is called the base of the system in which the logarithm is taken. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to ivhich it is necessary to raise the base, in order to produce the given number. The logarithms of all... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1872 - 464 pages
...spherical trigonometry. b TRIGONOMETRY AND MENSURATION. INTR0DUCTI0N T0 TRIG0N0METRY. LOGARITHMS. 1. THB 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. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any positive... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1872 - 602 pages
...book, called the log-book. [Gr. ioyor, ratio, and The logarithm of a LOG'A-RITHM apiaftoc, number], number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, called the base, to produce the given number. If we suppose a to preserve a constant... | |
 | Daniel Barnard Hagar - Algebra - 1873 - 278 pages
...Find the square of a - b+y. Ans. a? 3. Find the square of a — b — c. SECTION Lll. LOGARITHMS. 391. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a constant number must be involved to produce the given number. Thus, if 8 is the constant number,... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1873 - 396 pages
...seven decimal places. 2.4 2.4.9 ' ' 5.16 5.10.168 5.10.15.163 = 1.9743506. CHAPTEE XX. LOGARITHMS. 394. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a constant number must be raised in order to be equal to the proposed number. The constant number is... | |
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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, in order to produce the first number. 
