 | Edward Cocker - 1729 - 514 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Nicholas Saunderson - 1761 - 438 pagina’s
...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...dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient : and thus by the help of logarithms may the operation of divifion be performed by... | |
 | Nicholas Saunderson - 1776 - 436 pagina’s
...which they belong \ that is, whenever one number is to be divided by another, it is but fubtracting the logarithm of the divifor from the logarithm of...dividend, and the remainder will be the logarithm of the quotient : and thus by the help of logarithms may the operation of divifion be performed by... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - 1802 - 556 pagina’s
...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...dividend, and 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... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - 1806 - 488 pagina’s
...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...dividend, and 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... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1810 - 478 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1839 - 498 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Abraham Crocker - 1841 - 486 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
