 | Charles Haynes Hughes - Naval architecture - 1917 - 774 pages
...[Above examples from Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book. Wm. Kent.] LOGARITHMS The logarithm (log.) of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number or base to produce the given number. Thus if the base is 10, the log. of 100 is 2, for 102 = 100. Logarithms... | |
 | Elmer Adelbert Lyman, Albertus Darnell - Algebra - 1917 - 520 pages
...= ? 9. Divide 1048576 by 2048. 10. Divide 524288 by 512. 11. Divide 8192 by V1024. 628. Logarithm. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number called the base must be raised to produce the number. Thus, in 2i8 = 8192, 13 is the... | |
 | United States. War Department - Fortification, Field - 1917 - 576 pages
...service it is enough to place the corresponding part of the drawing over the station by the eye. 110. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. The base of the... | |
 | United States. War Department - Fortification, Field - 1917 - 562 pages
...it is enough to place the corresponding part of the drawing over the station by the eye. 110. Tfce logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to produce the given number. The base of the... | |
 | Edward Samuel Farrow - Military art and science - 1918 - 1106 pages
...hollow or cavity in the under part of the bore, where the shot rests when rammed home. Logarithm. — The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the base, must be raised to : produce the given number. The base of... | |
 | James Thom Beard - Coal mines and mining - 1920 - 454 pages
...the roots of numbers, or raising a number to a given power by the use of logarithms. Definition. — The logarithm of a 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. Systems of Logarithms. — There are two systems of... | |
 | Julius Lederer Neufeld - Algebra - 1920 - 412 pages
...logarithm of any number is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number must be raised to equal the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system of logarithms. The Briggs or Common system of logarithms uses the number 10 as its base. Hence, the... | |
 | Peder Lobben - Mechanical engineering - 1922 - 512 pages
...Briggs system of logarithms has for its modulus 0.4342945, and 10 for its base. Therefore the Briggs logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which 10 must be raised in order to give the number. Thus : Log. 1=0 because 10° = 10 = 1 100 = 2 1,000... | |
 | William Kent - Mechanical engineering - 1923 - 1450 pages
...log tables on pages 6 !.) >Earithms (abbreviation log}. — The log of a number is the exponent № power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce the a number. The fixed number is called the base. Thus if the base is the log of 1OOO is 3, for 103=1000.... | |
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - Electricity - 1924 - 840 pages
...possess polarity and attract iron. The latter are lodestones. Synonym — Hercules Stone Logarithm. The exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce a given number. The fixed number is the base of the system. There are two systems ; one, called the... | |
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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. The fixed number is called the base of the system. 
