 | Webster Wells - 1885 - 370 páginas
...reader. The rules for characteristic are based on Arts. 339 and 340. I. If ihn number is greater than 1 , the characteristic is one less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. II. If the number is less than 1 , subtract the number of ciphers between the decimal point and first... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1885 - 382 páginas
...reader. The rules for characteristic are based on Arts. 339 and 340. I. If the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is one less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. II. If the number is less than 1, subtract the number of ciphers between the decimal point and first... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1885 - 368 páginas
...reader. The rules for characteristic are based on Arts. 339 and 340. I. If the number is greater than 1 , the characteristic is one less than the number of places to the le,fi of the, decimal point. II. If the number is less than 1, subtract the number of ciphers between... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1885 - 324 páginas
...reader. The rules for characteristic are based on Arts. 339 and 340. I. If the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is one less than the number of places to the lefl nf the decimal point. II. If the number is less than 1, subtract the number of ciphers between... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1887 - 200 páginas
...characteristic are based on Arts. 84 and 85 : * I. If the number is greater than 1 , the characteristic is 1 less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. i/ II. If the number is between 0 and 1 , subtract the number of ciphers between the decimal point... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1887 - 158 páginas
...characteristic must be supplied by the reader. I. If the number is greater than 1, lhe characteristic te 1 less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. II. If the number is between 0 and 1, subtract the, number of ciphers between the decimal point and... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1887 - 196 páginas
...characteristic must be supplied by the reader. I. If the number is greater than 1 , the characteristic is 1 less than the number of places to the left of the decimal po,nt. II. If the number is between 0 and 1, subtract the number of ciphers between the decimal point... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1889 - 584 páginas
...characteristic are based on Arts. 400 and 401 : I. If the number is greater than 1 , the characteristic is 1 less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. II. If the number is less than 1, subtract the number of ciphers between the decimal point and first... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1890 - 604 páginas
...decimal point, is 2 ; etc. Hence, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is I less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. For example, the characteristic of log 906328.51 is 5. 493. In like manner, the logarithm of a number... | |
 | Louis Winslow Austin, Charles Burton Thwing - 1895 - 222 páginas
...have the same mantissa. (I.) The characteristic of a number greater than one is positive, and one unit less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. (II.) The characteristic of a number less than one is negative, and one unit more than the number of... | |
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If the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is one less than the number of places to the left of the decimal point. 
