...24 thousand, 1 hundred 00 and 10 million, 7 hundred 29 thousand, 3 hundred 14 hundred millionth». Zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the decimal do iiot. affect t lie rending of the numerator of the decimal but they are counted in determining...

...point; while the characteristic for a number less than 1 is negative and one greater (numerically) than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. sequence of digits. A more accurate method will be shown in section 7, where linear interpolation is...

...even number of figures at the left of the decimal point. In case the number is less than 1, an odd number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure puts the number on the left-hand scale and an even number of zeros puts it on the right-hand scale....

...For example, .000,012,984,18 is shown as .0* 13, 984, 18. The superior number after the zero gives the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. CONSTANTS FOR CIRCULAR ARCHES 197. Use of Table. — Quantities in table 10, Constants for Circular...

...point) . From rule 2, the characteristic of 0.01 is — 2, or 8.00000 — 10 (negative and one more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure) . From rule 3, if the characteristic of a log is 4, the corresponding number has five figures in its...

...Sugars TABLE 128. — Method of obtaining — log T — Continued the characteristic is equal to minus the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Thus, the characteristic of T • 0.5 is 0; that of T= 0.005 (0.5 percent) is — 2; etc. EXAMPLE 1.—...

...55074 23 1.36925 25907 1 2.26068 45933 8 3.35052 45823 6 1 The number in the parentheses stands for the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure. w=3 w = 3 .71109 30099 29 .27851 77335 69 (1) 10389 25650 16 1.07769 28592 7 2.76214 29619 0 5.60109...

...significant figure is to the right of the decimal point, the characteristic is negative and is 1 more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure; eg, the characteristic of the logarithm of 0.0135 is —2. To aid in adding and subtracting logarithms...

...1000 x 0.30103 = - 301.03 = - 302 + (1 - .03) = - 302 + . 97 = 302.97 (v Mantissa must be positive).'. The number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant number is 302-1 = 301. (14) Prove that log! 0 2 lies between - and т« ,* Solution : To prove that...

...lues have several zeros following the decimal point. In such cases, as explained in a evious section, the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant :ure is designated by a superior number; for example, 0.000,015,4 is written 0.04154. In the lower...