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62 REMARKS ON APPENDIX.  of quotients by the first, that is the number of places in the product less one, will be equal to the Logarithm of the second.

Here we see that if we assume the of 10 to be 10, the number of places in the tenth power is 4, wherefore the logarithm of 2 will be 3 and something over. The number of places in the hundredth power is 31; in the thousandth, 302; in the ten thousandth, 3011; and generally the more products we take the more nearly do we approach the true sought for. For when the products are few, the fraction adhering to the