- (base 10)
logarithms,
which were
easier to use.
Tables of
logarithms were
published in many
forms over four centuries. The idea of
logarithms was also...
- subtraction, use of
logarithms avoided laborious and error-prone paper-and-pencil
multiplications and divisions.
Because logarithms were so useful, tables...
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distances proportional to the
differences between their logarithms.
Sliding the
upper scale appropriately amounts to
mechanically adding logarithms, as illustrated...
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appendix of a work on
logarithms by John Napier. However, this did not
contain the
constant itself, but
simply a list of
logarithms to the base e{\displaystyle...
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instances of the
discrete logarithm problem.
Other base-10
logarithms in the real
numbers are not
instances of the
discrete logarithm problem,
because they...
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independent variable(s) x. Then, for a
fixed value of x, the
logarithms of the odds (not the
logarithms of the probabilities) of
answering in
certain ways are:...
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number base, for both the
logarithms and the
number you are
raising to the
power of the
arithmetic mean of the
individual logarithms at that same base. additionally...
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Wonderful Canon of
Logarithms, 1614) and
Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio (Construction of the
Wonderful Canon of
Logarithms, 1619) are two books...
- C. E.
Merrill Company. p. 12.
Inverse Use of a
Table of
Logarithms; that is,
given a
logarithm, to find the
number corresponding to it, (called its antilogarithm)...
- mathematical) on a
logarithmic scale, that is, as
being proportional to the
value of a
logarithm function applied to the
ratio of the
quantity and a reference...
