Logarithms are a convenient way to express large numbers. (The base-10 logarithm of a number is roughly the number of digits in that number, for example.) Slide rules work because adding …

I would like to know how logarithms are calculated by computers. The GNU C library, for example, uses a call to the fyl2x() assembler instruction, which means that logarithms are calculated …

May 7, 2015 · Is the logarithm function injective (one-to-one)? 2. How to solve this logarithm equation. 0.

should I classify logarithm into arithmetic or algebra? Here is the definition of arithmetic by Oxford dictionary: the branch of mathematics dealing with the properties and manipulation of …

Dec 27, 2016 · $\begingroup$ I had "the logarithm of a number is the index to which the base is raised to equal that number" drilled into me 60 years ago. It's still helpful when I need a …

Dec 11, 2021 · Okay, now this is where the discrete comes in: the discrete Logarithm is essentially just the Logarithm over a finite group. I'll explain what that means below; A group in …

Jun 28, 2017 · It is unfortunate that secondary-school algebra textbooks teach students that "log" with no subscript always means the base-$10$ logarithm. Since the natural logarithm is indeed …

Now, all of these need an unbelievable amount of time to build a table of logarithms, even if you want only logs of numbers from $100$ to $1000$ to four decimals. And there is no simple way …

I'm thinking of making a table of logarithms ranging from 100-999 with 5 significant digits. By pen and paper that is. I'm doing this old school. What first came to mind was to use $\\log(ab) = \\lo...

Jan 10, 2021 · $\begingroup$ Also, if the logarithm is a function, it means it's a function with infinitely values, which causes also some trouble (among others) with identities like $\ln(xy)=\ln …