logarithm

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But unlike logarithms or formulas, there was no registry for sequences of numbers.

From Scientific American

Here’s the conversion formula the scientists came up with: Human age is equal to 16 multiplied by the natural logarithm of the dog’s age, plus 31.

From Seattle Times

To accommodate the vast size differences, the researchers divided classes using a mathematical function called a logarithm: the average weight of organisms in one class differed by a factor of 10 from adjacent classes.

From Scientific American

Secondly, the defense’s objection is about those Apple logarithms adding data to an image such that it can be viewed in three dimensions or recreate what is not there.

From The Verge

She worked as a substitute teacher in 1952, teaching “quadratic equations, geometric construction, logarithms, polynomials, whatever they needed,” she explains.

From Washington Post