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How To Use Logarithmic Table Book

To find the logarithm of a number: 1) The logarithm has two parts: the characteristic and mantissa 2) The characteristic is based on the number of digits before the decimal 3) The mantissa is found by looking up the first digit in the log table To find the antilogarithm of a number: 1) The antilogarithm table is used to find the decimal part 2) The decimal is placed after the first digit found in the table 3) The number is multiplied by 10 to the power of the characteristic

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How To Use Logarithmic Table Book

To find the logarithm of a number: 1) The logarithm has two parts: the characteristic and mantissa 2) The characteristic is based on the number of digits before the decimal 3) The mantissa is found by looking up the first digit in the log table To find the antilogarithm of a number: 1) The antilogarithm table is used to find the decimal part 2) The decimal is placed after the first digit found in the table 3) The number is multiplied by 10 to the power of the characteristic

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How to use logarithmic table book? Logarithm tables are used in practical calculations.

Here are some important formulae, which can make the use of logarithmic table simple. Log (m) n = n log m Log (m*n) = log m + log n Log (m/n) = log m log n For using a log table, all calculations can be divided into two separate exercises. A thorough understanding of these two parts is required to facilitate calculations with log tables. These two parts are:a) b) To find the logarithm of a number To find the anti logarithm of a number

To find the logarithm of a number The logarithm of any number is a combination of two parts. These are Characteristics and Mantissa. Characteristic is the name for the term before the decimal and Mantissa is the name for decimal term. These log tables are used always to find out the Mantissa. Characteristic can be found out by using the simple rule, i.e. Characteristic = (no. of digits before decimal) 1 E.g. in 764, the number of digits are 3 and hence characteristic is 2. and in 0.982, the number digits before decimal is 0, and hence the characteristic is 1 and written as . Characteristic can be negative in certain cases but Mantissa can never be negative. Now if we have to find the logarithm of 3.14 then as the no. of digits before decimal is 1 so its Characteristic will be 0. Now for Mantissa look at the first column of log table at 31 and then note down the number given in the fifth column of the row of 31. We are looking at fifth column because it is the one with the digit 4 on the top. Therefore log of 3.14 = 0.4969 To find the antilogarithm of a number Antilogarithm is the inverse of logarithm. Here we find the number whose logarithm is given. To find the decimal part, the procedure is same as Mantissa but antilogarithm table is used. Always keep the decimal point after the first digit of the antilogarithm value and multiply this number with 10 raised to the power equal to the characteristic.

E.g. for the antilogarithm of 1.4969, we have to look in row 49 and note down the digit from the seventh column with the digit 6 on the top. Now the mean difference under the column 9 is added. Now the decimal is to be placed at 1 place from left side. This process will give the result 3.14 x 101 = 31.4

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