 | Joseph Allen Galbraith - 1852 - 84 pages
...characteristic, is not entered in the tables, but is found by the following rule : The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of the digits of its integer part. Thus, the characteristic of the logarithm of 849 is 2 ; for as this... | |
 | Joseph Allen Galbraith - 1854 - 146 pages
...integer part, which ie called the characteristic, is not entered, but may be found by The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than tf,e number of the digits of its integer part. Thus, the characteristic of the logarithm of 849 is... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Logarithms - 1859 - 372 pages
...integral part is called the characteristic, and may be known from the following RULE. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity, is one less than the number of integral figures in the given number. Thus the logarithm of 297 is 2 plus a fraction ; that is, the... | |
 | Joseph Allen Galbraith - 1860 - 288 pages
...integer part, which id called the Characteristic, is not entered, but may be found by The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of the digits of its integer part, Thus, the characteristic of the logarithm of 849 is * ; for as this... | |
 | Joseph Allen Galbraith, Samuel Haughton - Logarithms - 1860 - 310 pages
...integer part, which is called the Characteristic, is not entered, but may be found by The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of the digits of its integer part. Thus, the characteristic of the logarithm of 849 is 2 ; for as this... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - 1864 - 360 pages
...registered in the tables, the characteristic being found as follows : — BULK I. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity, is one less than the number of the digits of its integer part. Thus : the characteristic of the logarithm of 849 is 2 ; for the number... | |
 | Janet Taylor - 1865 - 184 pages
...Epitome of Navigation. those on the right (476) are decimals. Again take any logarithm as 3-124830, the first figure (3) is called the index and the remaining...significant figure after the decimal point, and subtract this sum from 10, the remainder is the index ; the index of the logarithm of a decimal fraction, is... | |
 | George Fuller - Slide-rule - 1878 - 26 pages
...These together give the mantissa of the logarithm of the number. To this the indtx has to be added. The index of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of figures in the integral part of that number. Thus the index of 5432 is 3, of 543-2 is 2, of 54-32 is... | |
 | George Bruce Halsted - Measurement - 1881 - 258 pages
...same digits in the same order have the same mantissa. 143, The characteristic of the log of a number is one less than the number of digits in the integral part. 144, When the number has no integral figures, the characteristic of its log is negative, and is one... | |
 | John Bascombe Lock - 1882 - 378 pages
...be always obtained by the following rule, which is evident from page 167. RULE. The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of integral figures in that number. The characteristic of a number less than unity is negative, and (when... | |
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The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number. 
