 | Benjamin Peirce - 1837 - 300 lapas
...of logarithms, is of great importance; and the logarithm of a number maybe defined as the exponent of the power to which the. base of the system must be raised in order to produce this number. Logarithm of Product and of Power. 6. Corollary. When the base is... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - 1837 - 302 lapas
...of logarithms, is of great importance; and the logarithm of a number maybe defined as the exponent of the power to which the base of the system must be raised in order to produce this number. Logarithm of Product and of Power. 6. Corollary. When the base is... | |
 | William Chauvenet - 1843 - 102 lapas
...system. Hence the following definition : The logarithm of a number, in any system, is the exponent of the power to which the base of the system must be involved in order to produce tliat number. ,59. The logarithm of a number is denoted by the abbreviation... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1848 - 334 lapas
...1 ; then e 1. S + 1.2.8 and if x = 1, we get __ + _ + _ + = 2-718281828459. THEORY OF LOGARITHMS. A logarithm of a number is the index of the power to which a given quantity must be raised that the power may be equal to the number. Thus, if the power a" be... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - 1853 - 476 lapas
...on. But the best method of considering logarithms is derived from the following definition : — A logarithm of a number is the index of the power to which a given quantity must be raised so as to be equal to that number. Tims in the equation a* = n, x is... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - 1855 - 308 lapas
...of logarithms, is of great importance ; and the logarithm of a number may be denned as t/ic exponent of the power to which the base of the system must be raised in order to produce this number. Logarithm of Product and of Power. 8. Corollary. When the base is... | |
 | Robert Fowler - 1861 - 426 lapas
...from unity Ъе taken as a base, every number from 0 to зэ may be regarded as a power of that base. The " Logarithm" of a number is the index of the power to which the base must be raised to produce that number. If 4 be the base, then 42 = 16) And these equalities may be... | |
 | James Mills Peirce - 1873 - 104 lapas
...It may have any positive value except unity. The logarithm of a number in any system is the exponent of the power to which the base of the system must be raised to produce that number. The antilogarithm of a number is that number of which the given number is the logarithm; in other words,... | |
 | William James Milne - 1881 - 360 lapas
...What 64? What 256? 4. What power of 10 equals 10? What power of 10 equals 1? What 100? What 1000? 352. The Logarithm of a number is the index of the power to which a constant number must be raised to produce the given number. Thus, when 4 is the constant number,... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - 1883 - 542 lapas
...number of the ratios] ; Base of L. ; Brigg's L. ; Common L. ; Hyperbolic L. ; Naperian L. ; Table of L. The logarithm of a number is the index of the power to which a given number (or bast} must be raised to equal that number. Thus, to the base io, the L. of looo... | |
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The logarithm of a number is the index of the power to which the base of the system must be raised to equal a given number. 
