 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1879 - 346 pages
...geometrical progres sion are 1 and 128, respectively, required the series. APPENDIX. LOGARITHMS. S50. The LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which some constant number, called the base, must be raised to equal the number. Thus, suppose crc=nj, then... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Algebra - 1879 - 376 pages
...128, respectively, required the series. Ans. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128. APPENDIX. LOGARITHMS. 350. The LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which some constant number, called the base, must be raised to equal the number. Thus, suppose ax— m, then... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Steam engineering - 1880 - 84 pages
...itself is squared. ft. Define the terms logarithms and hyperbolic logarithms, and explain their use. A. 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. The use of logarithms is to abridge numerical... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1880 - 362 pages
...Rise per mile of various grades 317 LOGAEITHMS. I.-II. LOGARITHMS. l. DEFINITIONS AND PEINCIPLES. 1. 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; that is to say, it represents the number of times a fixed... | |
 | James Mackean - 1881 - 510 pages
...a similar notation apply to y and x + y, then CHAPTER XIX. LOGARITHMS AND EXPONENTIAL THEOREM. 249. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a second number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the first. Thus, if N = a", then... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Algebra - 1881 - 304 pages
...base may have any positive value except 1. The base of the common system of logarithms is 10. 384. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the base must be raised to produce the number. The abbreviation log is used for the words the logarithm... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1883 - 614 pages
...BOOK I. INTRODUCTORY PRINCIPLES AND DEFINITIONS. SECTION I. LOGARITH MS. 1. The logarithm of a given 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. In the... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Mechanical engineering - 1884 - 740 pages
...squared. hms. and Define the terms logarithms and hyperbolic logarithms, explain their use. Answer. — 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. The use of logarithms is to abridge numerical... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1902 - 232 pages
...of mathematics and physics meets logarithms for the first time at an early stage. He is told that " the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain number, taken as the base, must be raised in order to equal the given number." The definition... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...TRIGONOMETRY AND MENSURATION. INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY. LOGARITHMS. 1. The LOGARITHM of a given number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed numbe: to produce the given number. The fixed number is called THE BA8E OF THE SY8TEM. Any... | |
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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. 
