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Logarithms were invented by John Napier who was a mathematician. He invented other things too, so there was no reason why he couldn't invent the logarithms. Logarithms were invented so people could take short cuts to multiplications!

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Logarithms helped to simplify and speed up math in a time when there were no calculators.

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