- (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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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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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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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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exponential function to be defined). By
continuity of the
logarithm, this can be
proved by
taking logarithms and
proving x = lim n → ∞ ln ( 1 + x n ) n = lim...
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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...
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calculated by
taking the
natural logarithm ln {\displaystyle \ln } of each number,
finding the
arithmetic mean of the
logarithms, and then
returning the result...
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changing the
original logarithms invented by John
Napier into
common (base 10)
logarithms,
which are
sometimes known as
Briggsian logarithms in his honour. The...
