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Take logarithms?
== Logarithm== From the American Heritage Dictionary: New Latin logarithmus : Greek logos, reason, proportion, and arithmos, number
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It turns out that many calculations and formulae are simpler if natural logarithms are used. To give but one example, the derivative (or slope) of the nagural logarithm function is 1/x. This means the derivative of other logarithms is more complicated.
The Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers from 1 to 108000.