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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 common logarithm of a number less than 1 has a negative value.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

One such scale that is very popular for chemical concentrations and equilibrium constants is based on the p-function, defined as shown where “X” is the quantity of interest and “log” is the base-10 logarithm:

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The safety index associated with automobile driving is thus a relatively low 3.7, the logarithm of 5,300.

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


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