A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for scientists and ...

LOGARITHMS, as anyone forced to use them at school will recall, can speed up the process of mathematical calculation dramatically. By representing numbers as logarithms (with the help of a slide-rule, ...

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(1) THIS is a clearly printed table of logarithms and antilogarithms to five places with a four figure argument and mean differences. A seven place table of (l+r/100) n for n = 1 to 9 and r = 0.00 to ...

PART IV. of this monumental work, the third to be published, gives the logarithms of numbers between 40,000 and 50,000. These were obtained by adding the logarithm of 0.5 to the logarithms of all the ...