 | Joe Garner Estill - Geometry - 1896 - 168 pages
...decimal point. II. If the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the decimal. Thus, the characteristic of log 378.37 is 2 ; " " " " .0917" — 2; " " " " 5.391 " 0; " "... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 186 pages
...decimal point. II. If the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the decimal. Thus, the characteristic of log 378.37 is 2 ; " " " " .0917 " — 2; " " " " 5.391 " 0; "... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 520 pages
...decimal point ; when the number is less than ', the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. 11. To avoid the use of negative characteristics we add 'o to the characteristic and write — 'o after... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 214 pages
...units in the characteristic. II. Wfien the characteristic is negative, the number is a decimal, and the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure is one less than the number of units in the characteristic. 7. To avoid certain difficulties in the... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - Logarithms - 1896 - 132 pages
...decimal point ; when the number is less than i, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. 11. To avoid the use of negative characteristics we add io to the characteristic and write — io after... | |
 | George D. Pettee - Geometry, Modern - 1896 - 272 pages
...of the decimal point are the same. 3. The characteristic of the logarithm of a decimal is 9, minus the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure ; and — 10 must follow the mantissa. For example: log 69745 = 4.84351 log 697.45 = 2.84351 log 6.9745... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - Logarithms - 1896 - 518 pages
...decimal point ; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative, and is one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant f1gure. 11. To avoid the use of negative characteristics we add 10 to the characteristic and write... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Logarithms - 1897 - 384 pages
...the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. INTRODUCTION. V If the characteristic of a given logarithm is positive, make the number... | |
 | Fletcher Durell, Edward Rutledge Robbins - Algebra - 1897 - 482 pages
...10. In practice, we use the following rule for the characteristics of decimal fractions : Subtract the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure from 9, and annex — 10 after the mantissa. 364. Mantissas of numbers are computed by methods which... | |
 | William Ward Duffield - Logarithms - 1897 - 356 pages
...characteristic, and from this difference again subtract 1. The last diflerence will be the number of intervening zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the number corresponding to the involved logarithm. ' Example. — What is the square or second power of... | |
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If the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number. 
