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
For example, the common logarithm of 100 is 2, because 10 must be raised to the second power to equal 100.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Because 60 lies between 10 and 100, which have logarithms of 1 and 2, respectively, the logarithm of 60 is 1.7782; that is,
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The logarithm of800 is 2.9, and thus the safety index for smoking is even lower than that for driving.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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