 | United States. War Department - 410 pages
...Log 1.359 = 0.13322 6. For numbers less than unity, the characteristic is negative. It is one more than the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure. Since the mantissa is positive, the negative sign is placed above the characteristic to show... | |
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...the logs of 49, "7, 7000, -0007, \, Щ. 12. How many digits are there in 1825 and in 1318? 13. Find the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant figure in (^)1000 and in (J)100. 14. Divide Г4-326847 by 9. 15. Find log 128, log 125, log 2500, having... | |
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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. 
