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Note on the Characteristic of a Logarithm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

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Students might be reminded that a number consists of so many digits, the value of each of which depends on its position. The values might be written above the separate digits just as we write £ s. d. over money columns. Thus, 523·7046 would be written

Rule for finding Characteristic.—The characteristic is the index of the power of 10 placed over the first significant digit in the number.

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Edinburgh Mathematical Notes , Volume 2 , July 1909 , pp. 16
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1909