Because logarithms relate geometric progressions to arithmetic progressions, examples are found throughout nature and art, such as the spacing of guitar frets, mineral hardness, and the ...

Typical algorithms used to compute logarithms are not quick and have a variable execution time depending on the input value. The technique [Ihsan] is using is both fast and has a constant run time.

I'd never have guessed, in the days when I used to paw through my grubby book of logarithms in maths classes, that I'd come to look back with fondness on these tables of cryptic decimals.

IN the preface Prof. Peirce writes:—“Logarithms ought not to be comprised, as they often are, in the midst of a treatise on algebra. For, in the first place, they are not algebraic functions ...

They owe their existence to a much later mathematical development that is celebrating its 400th anniversary this year: the invention of logarithms. Back in those days, when the Scientific ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A scientific calculator has two 'log' buttons on it. These are marked log and ln. The log key is used for ...

Every semester I teach calculus I ask my students if they know why we care about logarithms. And every semester I am met with a sea of blank faces and shoulder shrugs. "What is the most important ...

Logarithms are a common idea today, even though we don’t use them as often as we used to. After all, one of the major uses of logarithms is to simplify computations, and computers do that just ...

Taken from Introduction to Econometrics from Stock and Watson, 2003, p. 215: Y=B0 + B1*ln(X) + u ~ A 1% change in X is associated with a change in Y of 0.01*B1 ln(Y)=B0 + B1*X + u ~ A change in X by ...