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logarithm

[law-guh-rith-uhm, -rith-, log-uh-] / ˈlɔ gəˌrɪð əm, -ˌrɪθ-, ˈlɒg ə- /




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Before calculators, people outsourced hairy arithmetic to reference books called logarithm tables.

From Scientific American • May 8, 2023

In 1881, astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed that early pages of logarithm tables, which correspond to numbers beginning with one, were grubby and worn compared with the pristine later pages.

From Scientific American • May 8, 2023

The pH is calculated as the negative of the base 10 logarithm of this concentration.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The logarithm of the number resulting from the division of two numbers is the difference between the logarithms of the two numbers.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

For example, the logarithm of 700 is between 2, the logarithm of 100, and 3, the logarithm of 1,000; it happens to be about 2.8.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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