 | Robert Riegel - Business - 1924 - 586 pages
...logarithms now in common use is that known as the Briggian system which utilizes 10 as a base. Since a logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given base must be raised to produce that number, it follows that under this system the logarithm... | |
 | Robert Riegel - Business - 1927 - 588 pages
...logarithms now in common use is that known as the Briggian system which utilizes 10 as a base. Since a logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given base must be raised to produce that number, it follows that under this system the logarithm... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - Surveying - 1955 - 484 pages
...1 and 2, NavPers 10069-A and 10070-A, you will probably need a brief review. REVIEW OF LOGARITHMS A logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which another number called the base must be raised to equal the given number. For example, since 53 = 125,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1891 - 312 pages
...we make m = 0, M will be equal to 1 ; if m = 1, M will be equal to 10 ; etc. Hence DKEA — 19. 289 The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 217. If, as before, 10 denotes the base of the... | |
 | Mathematicians - 1902 - 714 pages
...strident of mathematics and physios meets logarithms for the first time at an early stage. He is told that 'the logarithm of a number is the exponent' of the power to which a certain number, taken as the base, must be raised in order to equal the given nnmber.' The definition... | |
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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. 
