logarithm

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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

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

From Scientific American • May 8, 2023

The common logarithm of a number less than 1 has a negative value.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The logarithm of a product of two numbers is the sum of the logarithms of the two numbers.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The logarithm of 100 is 2 because 102 = 100; the logarithm of 1,000 is 3 because 103 = 1,000; and the logarithm of 10,000 is 4 because 104 = 10,000.

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