logarithm

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Their functions included computing higher-order multiplications, exponents and logarithms, among other mathematical operations.

From New York Times

Before calculators, people outsourced hairy arithmetic to reference books called logarithm tables.

From Scientific American

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