LOGARITHM

logarithm, log

(noun) the exponent required to produce a given number

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

logarithm (plural logarithms)

(mathematics) For a number $\backslash (x\backslash )$, the power to which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain $\backslash (x\backslash )$. Written $\backslash (\backslash log\_b\; x\backslash )$. For example, $\backslash (\backslash log\_\{10\}\; 1000\; =\; 3\backslash )$ because $\backslash (10^3\; =\; 1000\backslash )$ and $\backslash (\backslash log\_2\; 16\; =\; 4\backslash )$ because $\backslash (2^4\; =\; 16\backslash )$.

Synonyms

• log

Anagrams

• algorithm, mithralog

Source: Wiktionary

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Log"a*rithm, n. Etym: [Gr. logarithme.] (Math.)

Definition: One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

Note: The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus 0 1 2 3 4 Indices or logarithms 1 10 100 1000 10,000 Numbers in geometrical progression Hence, the logarithm of any given number is the exponent of a power to which another given invariable number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce that given number. Thus, let 10 be the base, then 2 is the logarithm of 100, because 102 = 100, and 3 is the logarithm of 1,000, because 103 = 1,000. Arithmetical complement of a logarithm, the difference between a logarithm and the number ten.

– Binary logarithms. See under Binary.

– Common logarithms, or Brigg's logarithms, logarithms of which the base is 10; -- so called from Henry Briggs, who invented them.

– Gauss's logarithms, tables of logarithms constructed for facilitating the operation of finding the logarithm of the sum of difference of two quantities from the logarithms of the quantities, one entry of those tables and two additions or subtractions answering the purpose of three entries of the common tables and one addition or subtraction. They were suggested by the celebrated German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (died in 1855), and are of great service in many astronomical computations.

– Hyperbolic, or Napierian, logarithms, those logarithms (devised by John Speidell, 1619) of which the base is 2.7182818; -- so called from Napier, the inventor of logarithms.

– Logistic or Proportionallogarithms., See under Logistic.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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