Logarithms are everywhere in mathematics and derived fields, but we rarely think about how trigonometric functions, exponentials, square roots and others are calculated after we punch the numbers i… ...

Revise what logarithms are and how to use the 'log' buttons on a scientific calculator as part of Higher Maths.

HAVING been asked to give a short course of lectures to working men, which involved an account of logarithms and the slide-rule, I felt that, although not important, there would be some advantage ...

It is a common exercise in schools to plot on squared paper, numbers and their logarithms to the base 2 (see Blame's “Methods of Calculating,” Spon), to give a general notion of how the ...