 | Middlesex Alfred Bailey - 1902 - 336 páginas
...multiplier to produce the same result as a given number used once as a multiplier. The common definition, " The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a base must be raised to produce a given number," must be accepted in this sense. The number that is... | |
 | John William Bradshaw - 1903 - 76 páginas
...student of mathematics and physios meets logarithms for the first time at an early stage. He is told that "the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a certain number, taken as the ba.se, must be raised in order to equal the given number." The definition... | |
 | William Kent - 1902 - 1224 páginas
...GALLONS) IN CISTERNS AND TANKS.— Continued. LOGARITHMS. Logarithme (abbreviation log).— The log 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. Thus if the base is 10, the log of 1000 is it, for 103 = 1000.... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Brookes - 1905 - 106 páginas
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words, the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers form a series in arithmetical... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Brookes - 1906 - 664 páginas
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers from a series in arithmetical... | |
 | Calvin Franklin Swingle, Frederick John Prior - 1906 - 676 páginas
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers from a series in arithmetical... | |
 | Charles Westinghouse - 1906 - 168 páginas
...the power of the other number, which is denoted by the exponent, equal to the former. In other words the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the number must be raised to give a given base. When the logarithms of numbers form a series in arithmetical... | |
 | 1910 - 620 páginas
...subtraction, and the raising to powers and extraction of roots by multiplication and division of the former. The 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. Thus in the equation 103 = 1,000, 3 is the logarithm of 1,000,... | |
 | William Kent - 1910 - 1620 páginas
...TANKS. — Continued. LOGARITHMS. Logarithms (abbreviation log). — The log of a number is the expra^ of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produc the given number. The fixed number is called the bane. Thus it IS base is 10, the log of 1000... | |
 | American Steel & Wire Co - 1910 - 246 páginas
...device for measuring the speed of, or the distance traversed by, a vessel. Logarithm. The exponent, or the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number called the base, in order to produce a given number. Long-distance Transmission. Transmission of Electrical... | |
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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. 
