| Edward Cocker - 1729 - 514 sider
...Negative. IV. When the Charaaerifticks of the Dividend and of the Divifor are both Negative, fubtraS the Logarithm of the Divifor from the Logarithm of the Dividend, and the Remainder is the Logarithm of the Quotient; and if you borrow 10, it muft be paid to the Index of the Divifor,... | |
| Euclid - 1751 - 420 sider
...which they belong ; that is, whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtr acting the logarithm of the divifor from the Logarithm of...dividend, and the remainder will be the Logarithm Z of of the quotient ; and bccaufe every fraction is nothing elfe but the quotient of the numerator... | |
| Nicholas Saunderson - 1761 - 438 sider
...which they belong ; that is, whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtra&ing the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...of multiplication was by addition. Hence, as every fraftion is nothing elfe but the quotient of the numerator divided by the denominator, its logarithm... | |
| Thomas Hodson - 1802 - 556 sider
...that of the root ; that of the fixth power fextuple, &c. To perform divifion by logarithms, fubtrack the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient, firft changing the Ggn of the logarithm of the index of the divifor, and if they be of different figns,... | |
| Thomas Hodson - 1806 - 488 sider
...that of the root; that of the fixth power ftxtuple, &rc. To perform divifion by logarithms, fubtract the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient, firft changing the fign of the logarithm of the index of the divifor, and if they be of different figns,... | |
| Thomas Keith - 1810 - 478 sider
...29-128. PROPOSITION VIII. (M) To divide one number by another. * Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. If any of the indices be negative, or if the divisor be greater than the dividend, change the index... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 sider
...cancels the — 2, and there remains the — I to let down. DIVISION BY LOGARITHMS. RULE. SUBTRACT the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the number anfwering to the remainder will be the "logarithm of the quotient requireJ. Obferving to change... | |
| Thomas Keith - 1826 - 504 sider
...29-128. PROPOSITION VIII. (M) To divide one number by another.* Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. If any of the indices be negative, or if the divisor be greater than the dividend, change the index... | |
| Thomas Keith - 1839 - 498 sider
...29-128. PROPOSITION VIII. (12) To divide one number by another.* Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. If any of the indices be negative, or if the divisor be greater than the dividend, change the index... | |
| Abraham Crocker - 1841 - 486 sider
...table to 56. DIVISION, by means of logarithms, is performed by subtracting the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient. Divide 56 by 4. Logarithm of 56 = 1-748188 - - - of 4 = 0-602060 1-146128, answering to the natural... | |
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