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1. The logarithm to base ( that is ) is called the common logarithm and has many applications in science and engineering.
2. The number of transmission units expressing the ratio of any two powers is therefore ten times the common logarithm of that ratio.
3. The location of the decimal point in 120 tells us that the integer part of the common logarithm of 120, the characteristic, is 2.
4. For switching from millimeters of mercury to pascals it is sufficient to add the common logarithm of the factor between both units to the A parameter:
5. How they differ from the common logarithms, how one system can be changed to the other, how they are determined, are all explained.
6. Yet another example is pH in chemistry; pH is the negative of the common logarithm of the mol�L  " 1, hence a pH of 7.
7. The last number ( 0.07918 )  the fractional part or the mantissa of the common logarithm of 120 can be found in the table shown.
8. Tables of common logarithms were used until the invention of computers and electronic calculators to do rapid multiplications, divisions, and exponentiations, including the extraction of " n " th roots.
9. The fractional part of the common logarithm of numbers greater than zero but less than one is just 1 minus the mantissa of the same number with the decimal point shifted to the right of the first non-zero digit.
10. Tables of common logarithms typically listed the mantissa, to 4 or 5 decimal places or more, of each number in a range, e . g . 1000 to 9999 . Such a range would cover all possible values of the mantissa.