 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1845 - 382 pages
...logarithm of that number ; and the invariable number a is called the bose of that system of logarithms. Hence, The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise an invariable number, called the base of the system, in order to produce the number. The general properties... | |
 | Algebra - 1847 - 386 pages
...logarithm of that number; and the invariable number a is called the base of that system of logarithms. Hence, The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the power to which if is necessary to raise an invariable number, called the base of tin xt/stem, in order to produce... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1848 - 302 pages
...to 1 ; if wi=l, M will be equal to 10, &c. Hence, The logarithm of a number is the exponent of ike power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 1 76. Letting, as before, a denote the base of the system of logarithms, m any exponent, and M the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1848 - 300 pages
...if wi=l, M will be equal to 10, &c. Hence, The logarithm of a number, is the exponent of the parser to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 1 76. Letting, as before, a denote the base of the system of logarithms, m any exponent, and M the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1850 - 292 pages
...represent the corres ending number by M, am=Jlf Thus, if we make m=0, M will be equal to 1; if w=l, M will be equal to 10, &,c. Hence, The logarithm of...base of the system in order to produce the number. 1 TO. Letting, as before, a denote the base of the system of logarithms, m any exponent, and M the... | |
 | William Smyth - Algebra - 1851 - 272 pages
...determined for all possible values of N. In this equation, x is the logarithm of N. And in general, the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise an invariable number talcen as a base, in order to produce the number. Supposing a table of logarithms... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1851 - 524 pages
...which we shall give some exposition of the • THEORY OF LOGARITHMS. 43. The logarithm of any given number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise some particular number in order to produce the given number. Thus, let 10 be the number raised to the... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1851 - 536 pages
...exponent of the divisor from that of the dividend in order to obtain that of the quotient. Since I — I is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise 6 the base, in order to produce - it follows that I — /'is the logan n' rithm of — - ie the logarithm... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...hypothenuse and radius of the inscribed circle. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY. INTKODUCTION. OF LOG.AEITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a faced number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the lase of the system,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1852 - 412 pages
...Meridional Parts on Gunter's Scale, 222 ELEMENTS 0F SUEYEYIIG. BOOK I. SECTION I. OF LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the base of the system,... | |
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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, in order to produce the first number. 
