"Logarithm" Quotes from Famous Books
... scarcely a man in this class who has not heard of how Professor P222D29333Male accidentally stumbled upon the scientific fact that the effect of gravity is reversed upon any body which vibrates perpendicularly to the plane of the ecliptic with a frequency which is an even multiple of the logarithm of 2 of the Naperian base 'e.' At once, special vibrating cars were constructed which carried mankind to all planets. That discovery of Professor P222D29333Male did nothing less than open up seven new territories to our inhabitants; namely: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ... — John Jones's Dollar • Harry Stephen Keeler
... residual analyses are recorded in the lower left-hand corner: first the weight of the water absorbed from 10 liters of air passing through the meter; to the logarithm of this is added the logarithm of volume I; the result is the logarithm of the total weight of water-vapor in the ventilating air-current. To convert this into liters the logarithmic factor 09462[26] is added to the logarithm of the weight of water and (a) ... — Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man • Francis Gano Benedict |