-
footnote to
paragraph 1.7: "log x is, of course, the '
Naperian'
logarithm of x, to base e. 'Common'
logarithms have no
mathematical interest". Mortimer, Robert...
- The term
Napierian logarithm or
Naperian logarithm,
named after John Napier, is
often used to mean the
natural logarithm.
Napier did not
introduce this...
-
information entropy,
based on
natural logarithms and
powers of e,
rather than the
powers of 2 and base 2
logarithms,
which define the shannon. This unit...
-
Wonderful Canon of
Logarithms, 1614) and
Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio (Construction of the
Wonderful Canon of
Logarithms, 1619) are two books...
-
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...
- ln(10)
appears because physicists tend to use
natural logarithms and
chemists decadal logarithms. Beam
intensity can also be
described in
terms of multiple...
- loss for each
individual p****age. However, if
intensity is desired, the
logarithms must be
converted back into
linear units by
using an exponential: I =...
