 | Aaron Schuyler - 1873 - 508 páginas
...point. An inspection of the above will reveal the following laws: 1. If the number is integral or mixed, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of integral figures. 2. If the number is entirely decimal, the characteristic is negative and is one greater,... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - 1875 - 284 páginas
...An inspection of the above will reveal the following laws : 1. If the number is integral or mixed, the characteristic is positive and is one less than the number of integral figures. 2. If the number is entirely decimal, the cltaracteristic is negative and is one... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - 1896 - 520 páginas
...reason the common system of logarithms is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of digit* to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than ', the characteristic is negative,... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - 1896 - 518 páginas
...system of logarithms is used in practice. 10. The characteristic is found as follows : When the num6er is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the num6er of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the num6er is less than 1, the characteristic... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - 1900 - 504 páginas
...449. The characteristic of the common logarithm of any number is found by the following simple rule: When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive and arithmetically one fc.ss than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point ; when the number... | |
 | Thomas Ulvan Taylor, Charles Puryear - 1902 - 268 páginas
...characteristic is 3. For numbers greater than 1, therefore, we see that the characteristic is positive and 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. Any positive number less than 1 may be expressed, exactly or approximately, as a decimal, and... | |
 | Herbert Edwin Hawkes - 1905 - 312 páginas
...following rules are immediately deduced. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of digits to the left of its decimal point. Thus the characteristic of the logarithm of 471 is 2, since 471 is between 100 and... | |
 | Daniel Alexander Murray - 1906 - 466 páginas
...mantissas. The characteristics are obtained by the following rule, which is deduced in algebra : * When the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is positive, and is one less than the number of figures to the left of the decimal point ; when the number is less than 1, the characteristic is negative,... | |
 | Frederick Howland Somerville - 1908 - 428 páginas
...decimal point is 2. In general, The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is 1 less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. (b) When the given number is a decimal. 443. By Art. 440 (4), the characteristic of the logarithm... | |
 | John Gale HUN (and MAC INNES (Charles Ranald)), Charles Ranald MacInnes - 1911 - 234 páginas
...to the left of the decimal place is n — 1 Hence, the characteristic of the logarithm of a number is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal place. This rule obviously does not apply to the logarithms of numbers less than 1. Consider the logarithm... | |
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The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than 1 is a positive integer or zero, and is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point. 
