 | James Thom Beard - 1920 - 456 pages
...numbers, or raising a number to a given power by the use of logarithms. Definition. — The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number called the "base" to produce the given number. Systems of Logarithms. — There are... | |
 | Peder Lobben - 1922 - 512 pages
...multiplication, subtraction the place of division; multiplication that of involution, and division of evolution. The logarithm of any given number is the exponent of the power to which another fixed number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce the given number. There are... | |
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - 1924 - 840 pages
...possess polarity and attract iron. The latter are 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... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1891 - 312 pages
...will be equal to 1 ; if m = 1, M will be equal to 10 ; etc. Hence DKEA — 19. 289 The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise the base of the system in order to produce the number. 217. If, as before, 10 denotes the base of 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, in order to produce the first number. 
