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.
Michael Stifel published his discovery of logarithms in 1544. John Napier publicly propounded the method of logarithms in 1614. For more details see related link.
The inventions of the zero and the logarithms.
The inventions of the zero and the logarithms
The inventions of the zero and the logarithms
The inventions of the zero and the logarithms
Logarithms are actually an area of mathematics. Using logarithms one might ask the question, "what is the logarithm of 5 (base 10 being assumed)" And the answer would be, you would raise 10 to the power 0.698970004 to result in 5.
The base of common logarithms is ten.
The main misconception is that logarithms are hard to understand.The main misconception is that logarithms are hard to understand.The main misconception is that logarithms are hard to understand.The main misconception is that logarithms are hard to understand.
William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier.
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! :)
In 1614, John Napier published his invention of logarithms.
No, they are opposites, just like multiplication and division are opposites.