A Practical Text-book on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

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Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1883
 

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Pàgina 116 - In any triangle the square of any side is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of these two sides and the cosine of their included angle.
Pàgina 178 - If the function is a sine, since the sine of an angle is equal to the sine of its supplement...
Pàgina 115 - In every plane triangle, the sum of two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the angles opposite those sides is to the tangent of half their difference.
Pàgina 155 - The sum of the angles of a spherical triangle is greater than two and less than six right angles ; that is, greater than 180° and less than 540°. (g'). If A'B'C' is the polar triangle of ABC...
Pàgina 76 - This table is added simply for convenience, as the same mantissae are to be found in the other part of the table. To find the logarithm of any number consisting of four figures. Find, in the column headed N, the first three figures of the given number. Then the mantissa of the required logarithm will be found in the horizontal line corresponding, in the vertical column which has the fourth figure of the given number at the top. If only the last four figures of the mantissa are found, the first two...
Pàgina 71 - ... the logarithm of a fraction is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator.
Pàgina 68 - If a number is not an exact power of 10, its common logarithm can only be expressed approximately ; the integral part of the logarithm is called the characteristic, and the decimal part the mantissa.
Pàgina 69 - If the number is greater than 1, the characteristic is 1 less than the number of figures to the left of the decimal point.
Pàgina 66 - Any positive number being selected as a base, the logarithm of any other positive number is the exponent of the power to which the base must be raised to produce the given number. Thus, if a
Pàgina 70 - Ios- y" &cFrom which it is evident, that the logarithm of the product of any number of factors is equal to the sum of the logarithms of those factors.

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