 | Elias Loomis - 1873 - 396 páginas
...seven decimal places. 2.4 2.4.9 ' ' 5.16 5.10.168 5.10.15.163 = 1.9743506. CHAPTEE XX. LOGARITHMS. 394. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a constant number must be raised in order to be equal to the proposed number. The constant number is... | |
 | Daniel Barnard Hagar - 1873 - 278 páginas
...Find the square of a - b+y. Ans. a? 3. Find the square of a — b — c. SECTION Lll. LOGARITHMS. 391. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a constant number must be involved to produce the given number. Thus, if 8 is the constant number,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1874 - 464 páginas
...spherical trigonometry. TRIGONOMETRY AND MENSURATION. INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY. LOGARITHMS. 1. TUB LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power...raise a fixed number, to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any positive number, except 1, may be taken as the... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1874 - 500 páginas
...0 INTRODUCTION TO TRIG( LOGARITHMS. rYORK ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDE* FOUNDATIONS 1899 1. THE LOGAEITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which...raise a fixed number, to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the base of the system. Any positive number, except 1, may be taken as the... | |
 | Carl Bremiker - 1875 - 544 páginas
...common logarithm of a number (which kind of logarithms is exclusively used for purposes of computation) is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the number 10 in order to produce the given number. Thus, if the exponents are a and I, and if we put... | |
 | William Guy Peck - 1875 - 348 páginas
...system. 186. If we denote any positive number, except 1, by a, any positive number whatever by n, and the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a, in order to produce n, by x, we shall have the exponential equation, a* = n (1) In this equation, a... | |
 | William Guy Peck - 1876 - 412 páginas
...proved. TRIGONOMETRY. I. INTRODUCTION— USE OF LOGARITHMS. DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS. 1. The common logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise 10 to produce the given number ; thus, 2 is the logarithm of 100, because 102 = 100. NOTE. — The... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1876 - 204 páginas
...ELEMENTS PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIG0N0METRY; PRA6TI6AL APPLI6ATI0NS. TRIGONOMETRY, BOOK I. LOGARITHMS. 1. THE LOGARITHM of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised in order to produce the first number. 2. The BASE of the system... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 páginas
...sometimes called the logistic »piral. WG PECK. Logarithms [Gr. Aóyocand¿pi0póc]. The logarithm uf a number is the exponent of the power to which it...raise a fixed number to produce the given number. The fixed number is called the Ъпя«. Thus, in the equation 10s =»1000, 3 is the logarithm of 1000,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - 1878 - 322 páginas
...ratio of f each second to infinity. Through what space would it move ? CHAPTER XIX. LOGARITHMS.* 436. The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given fixed number must be raised to produce that number. 437. This Fixed Number is called the Base... | |
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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, to produce the given number. 
