... Industrial Press, Inc., New York, NY Guide to Machinery's Handbook 27th Edition SECTION CALCULATIONS INVOLVING LOGARITHMS OF NUMBERS HANDBOOK Pages 111 to 118 The purpose of logarithms is to ... 2.544068 The whole number is the characteristic (see Handbook page 111) and the decimal part 0.544068, or the mantissa, is found in the table (Handbook page 115) Principles Governing the Application ... (relative addresses) Copyright 2004, Industrial Press, Inc., New York, NY Guide to Machinery's Handbook 27th Edition 30 ADVANCED SPREADSHEET CONCEPTS Table 4a 10% Interest Rate Calculations Spreadsheet...