 | Charles Davies - 1886 - 352 páginas
...bodies which have been described. ELEMENTS OF TRIGONOMETRY. INTRODUCTION. SECTION I. OF LOGABITHKR. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a filed number, in order to produce the first number. This fixed number is called the base of the system,... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - 1888 - 868 páginas
...LOGARITHMS— EXPONENTIAL AND LOGARITHMIC SERIES— INTEREST AND ANNUITIES. LOGARITHMS. 202. Definitions. — The Logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which another number, called the base, must be raised to equal the given number. Thus, if a* = N, x is called... | |
 | John Bernard Clarke - 1889 - 566 páginas
...the upper course being 13» and in each side of the lowest course 50. CHAPTEE XI. LOGARITHMS. 509. 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 given number. Thus, in the equation a x =N, a being a fixed number, and N any... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - 1889 - 684 páginas
...record of its actual speed at any time during the entire run. Logarithms. — The logarithm of any given number, is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the given number. A table of logarithms enables the operations of multiplication,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1889 - 330 páginas
...system. 183. 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 a:, we shall have the exponential equation, a* = n ...... (1.) In this equation,... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - 1890 - 372 páginas
...or zero plane. HW HiJh weíer. LW Low water. , LOGAElTHMS. LOGAEITHMS. DEF1N1T1ON8 AND PR1NC1PLE8. 1. THE logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to whieh it is neeessary to raise a fixed number to produee the given number; that is to say, it represents... | |
 | William Kent - 1895 - 1234 páginas
...In Feet. LOGARITHMS. Logarithm* (abbreviation ¡off).— The log of a number Is the exponent of ihe power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce the given Dumber. The flxed number is called the base. Thus if th« base is 10, UK lo« of 1000 is 3, for 10s... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 186 páginas
...Find a side of the circumscribed equilateral triangle, the radius of the circle being ^3 LOGARITHMS. 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which an assumed number must be raised to produce the first number. 2. Since logarithms are exponents, the... | |
 | George D. Pettee - 1896 - 272 páginas
...(Cornell, Sept., 1891.) 23. Given- = -. Constructs. (Cornell, June, 1893.) x 3 APPENDIX LOGARITHMS 1. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which some assumed number must be raised to produce the given number. The assumed number is called the base.... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 214 páginas
...4/3. 10. Find the radius of the circle in which the sector of 45° is .125 square inches. LOGARITHMS. 1 . The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which an assumed number must be raised to produce the first number. 2. Since logarithms are exponents, the... | |
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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. 
