logarithm

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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

Note that this is a logarithm scale not a linear scale.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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 safety index associated with automobile driving is thus a relatively low 3.7, the logarithm of 5,300.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos