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An Exercise on Logarithmic Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Professor Tait
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In reducing some experiments, I noticed that the logarithm of 237 is about 2.37 …. Hence it occurred to me to find in what cases the figures of a number and of its common logarithm are identical:—i.e., to solve the equation

where m is any positive integer.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 5 , February 1886 , pp. 101 - 102
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1886