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What does the logarithm of a decimal number tell you about a number?
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∙ 11y ago
Near enough the exact value of the number. Logarithms, for positive numbers, have are invertible.
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What is the decimal part of a logarithm?
mantissa
What is 27.9 as a decimal?
27.9 IS a decimal number. You can tell it is a decimal number because it has a decimal point (.).
What is the difference between the common logarithm and the natural logarithm?
A logarithm is the exponent to which a number called a base is raised to become a different specific number. A common logarithm uses 10 as the base and a natural logarithm uses the number e (approximately 2.71828) as the base.
How can you tell if a decimal is an irrational number?
When a decimal can't be expressed as a fraction then it is an irrational number.
What is a natural logarithm?
That is a logarithm to the base "e", where "e" is a number that is approximately 2.718.
What is the definition of mantissa?
The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
What is an antilogarithm?
An antilogarithm is the number of which the given number is the logarithm (to a given base). If x is the logarithm of y, then y is the antilogarithm of x.
What does a decimal number tell you?
It tells you the value (and sign) of the number.
Is a logarithm an irrational number?
Usually, but not necessarily. A logarithm that is not an integer-value is irrational. For example log10100 = 2 which is a rational number. log1012 = 1.0791812460476... which is an irrational number.
What is twice the base of the natural logarithm?
The "base of the natural logarithm" is the number known as "e". It is approximately 2.718.
How a number can be written in the form of logarithm?
maths
What is a number for which a given logarithm stands?
the log of 1 is 0 (zero) the log of ten is one. When you take 10 to an exponent, then you have the number for which the logarithm stands.
