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Definition of Cologarithms
1. cologarithm [n] - See also: cologarithm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cologarithms
Literary usage of Cologarithms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by Arthur Graham Hall, Fred Goodrich Frink (1910)
"cologarithms. The logarithms of divisors have to be subtracted. ... There is no
advantage in using cologarithms when but two factors are involved. ..."
2. Plane Trigonometry and Applications by Ernest Julius Wilczynski (1914)
"cologarithms. Since we obtain the same result whether we divide Nby M, ...
There is no gain, however, from the use of cologarithms when we are dealing with ..."
3. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: And Four-place Tables of Logarithms by William Anthony Granville (1909)
"When a computation is to be made in which several factors occur in the denominator
of a fraction, it is more convenient to add the cologarithms of the ..."
4. Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables by Herbert Ellsworth Slaught (1914)
"cologarithms. Since we obtain the same result whether we divide N by M, ...
There is no gain, however, from the use of cologarithms when we are dealing with ..."
5. Computation Rules and Logarithms: With Tables of Other Useful Functions by Silas Whitcomb Holman (1918)
"cologarithms = Logarithms of Reciprocals. — The colog of any number p is the
logarithm of the reciprocal of the number. ..."
6. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by Edwin Charles Goddard, Elmer A Lyman (1900)
"cologarithms. In examples involving multiplications and divisions it is more
convenient, if n is any divisor, to add log - than to subtract log n. ..."
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