 | Emerson Elbridge White - 1896 - 418 páginas
...sixth term. 10. -, -, -, are in arithmetical progression. Show that abc CHAPTER XX. LOGARITHMS. 580. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. Thus, since 34... | |
 | William Galt Raymond - 1896 - 518 páginas
...corresponding to .005 ... Quotient, .605 The computer should use the marginal tables mentally. LOGARITHMS. 5. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given number called the 6ase must be raised to produce the first number. If A = e°, a is called... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - 1896 - 318 páginas
...9.0 corresponding to .005 .605 The computer should use the marginal tables mentally. 1 LOGARITHMS. 5. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given number called the 6ase must be raised to produce the first number. If A = e", a is called the... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Crockett - 1896 - 132 páginas
...corresponding to .005 .-. Quotient, .605 The computer should use the marginal tables mentally. LOGARITHMS. Б. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which a given number called the base must be raised to produce the first number. If A = ¿*, a is called... | |
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - 1897 - 696 páginas
...possess polarity and attract iron. The latter arc lodestones. Synonym — Hercules Stone Logarithm. The exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number to produce a given number. The fixed number is the base of the system. There are two systems; one, called the... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - 1898 - 1010 páginas
...caused to make a permanent record ot its actual speed at any time during the entire run. Logarithm.— The exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce a given number. A table of logarithms enables the operations of multiplication,... | |
 | Peder Lobben - 1899 - 460 páginas
...Briggs system of logarithms has for its modulus 0.4342945, and 10 for its base. Therefore the Briggs logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which 10 must be raised in order to give the number. Thus : Log. 1=0 because 10° = 1. " 10 = 1 " 10t = 10.... | |
 | Robert Wahl, Max Henius - 1902 - 1288 páginas
...subtract I, divide the remainder by the ratio less I, multiply the quotient by the first term. LOGARITHMS. The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power...raise a fixed number to produce the given number. This fixed number or "base" in the common logarithms is 10, in the "Naperian" or "hyperbolic" 2.718281828.... | |
 | William Kent - 1902 - 1204 páginas
...GALLONS) IN CISTERNS AND TATiKS.— Continued. LOGARITHMS. Logarithms (abbreviation top).— The log of a number is the exponent of the power to which...raise a fixed number to produce the given number. The fixed num ber is called the base. Thus if the base is 10, the log of 1000 is 3, for 103 = 1000.... | |
 | Thomas Ulvan Taylor, Charles Puryear - 1902 - 268 páginas
...343, the exponent 3 is the logarithm of 343 to the base 7. Definition. With reference to any base, the logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which the base must be raised to produce the given number. To ask, What is the logarithm of 1296 to 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. 
