 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1860 - 412 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 which it is necessary to raise the base, in order to produce the given number. The logarithms of all numbers corresponding to a given... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1860 - 328 pages
...if we make m = 0, M will be equal to 1 ; if m = J, M will be equal to 10, &c. Hence, The logarilhm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in orríer to produce the number. 176. Letting, as before, 10 denote the base... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - History - 1861 - 674 pages
...effected a lodgement, or the besieged destroyed the lodgements of the enemy. (See SIEGE.) LOGARITHM. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which another given invariable number must be raised in order to produce the first number. Thus in the common... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 532 pages
...ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIG0N0METRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. TRIGONOMETRY. BOOK I. LOGAEITHMS. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 518 pages
...ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATI0NS. TRIGONOMETRY. 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... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1863 - 464 pages
...trigonometry. TRIGONOMETRY MENSURATION. INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY. L 0 GA RITHMS. 1. THE LOGAEITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which...The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any positive number, except 1, may be taken as the base of a system. In the common system, the base... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1863 - 432 pages
...day. Ans. 80° 6' 27". 8. At 6 o'clock p. M. of the second day. Ans. 81° 37' 43". LOGARITHMS. 399. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the Lase, must be raised, in order to produce the given number. Thus,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1863 - 504 pages
...ELEMENTS or PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY; PRACTICAL APPLICATI0NS. TRIG0NOMETRY. 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... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1864 - 444 pages
...day. Ans. 81° 37' 43". 9. At 9 o'clock p. M. of the second day. Ans. 83° 8' 35" * LOGARITHMS. 399. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain other number, called the Laxe., must be raised, in order to produce the given number. Thus,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1864 - 358 pages
...the bodies which have been describedELEMENTS OF TRIGONOMETRY, INTRODUCTIONSECTION I- ' OF LOGARITHMS1 The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to ^ohich it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order tc produce the first numberThis fixed number... | |
| |
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. 
