 | Henry Raper - Nautical astronomy - 1908 - 1018 pages
...in the whole number, and out less than i is o. (2.) When the number consists of decimals only, count the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant* figure after it, and subtract this number from 9 ; the remainder is the index. Ex. 1. Find the log.... | |
 | Arthur Graham Hall, Fred Goodrich Frink - Plane trigonometry - 1909 - 272 pages
...number. The characteristic of the logarithm of any number less than unity is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant digit, then affixing — 10. 25. Mantissa. We have seen that moving the decimal point in the number... | |
 | Henry Lewis Rietz, Arthur Robert Crathorne - Algebra - 1909 - 290 pages
...following rule : To find tJie characteristic of the common logarithm of a decimal fraction, subtract from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. From the number so obtained subtract 10. If two numbers contain the same sequence of figures,... | |
 | Arthur Graham Hall, Fred Goodrich Frink - Logarithms - 1909 - 264 pages
...number. The characteristic of the. logarithm of any number less than unity is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant diyit, then affixing — 10. 25. Mantissa. We have seen that moving the decimal point in the number... | |
 | 1910 - 524 pages
...is, /or numbers wholly decimal, the characteristic is negative, and its numerical value is one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first decimal which is not a cipher. The numerical value of the characteristic of the logarithm of 0.036,... | |
 | Stimson Joseph Brown, Paul Capron - Algebra - 1910 - 212 pages
...computations. The characteristic of the logarithm of a decimal fraction is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure, and writing —10 after the mantissa. It is important to note that the negative logarithm is... | |
 | John William Hopkins, Patrick Healy Underwood - Algebra - 1912 - 362 pages
...number, and that the characteristic of a number less than unity is negative, and numerically one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. 203. Fundamental rules of logarithms. Let ax= n, ie x = logan, and ay = m,ie y = ]ogam. Hence,... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - Trigonometry - 1913 - 562 pages
...rule: II. The characteristic of the logarithm of any number less than i is a negative number one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the fraction. Thus, the fraction 0.00316228 has two ciphers between the decimal point and... | |
 | Alfred Monroe Kenyon, Louis Ingold - Trigonometry - 1913 - 184 pages
...numbers less than 1. BULB II. The characteristic of a number less than 1 is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant digit, and writing — 10 after the result. Thus, the characteristic of log 845 is 2 by Rule I ; the... | |
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FRACTION is a negative number, and is one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant Jigure. 
