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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 natural logarithm of the reaction rate constant is a linear function of the inverse of the temperature in Kelvin degrees.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The logarithm of a number raised to an exponent is the product of the exponent and the logarithm of the number.

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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