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

One such scale that is very popular for chemical concentrations and equilibrium constants is based on the p-function, defined as shown where “X” is the quantity of interest and “log” is the base-10 logarithm:

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

For example, the logarithm of 700 is between 2, the logarithm of 100, and 3, the logarithm of 1,000; it happens to be about 2.8.

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