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Definition of Logarithms

1. logarithm [n] - See also: logarithm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Logarithms

Literary usage of Logarithms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"V. " On the Potential Radix as a Means of Calculating logarithms to any Required Number ... 381), the logarithms used were all taken direct, or immediately ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Hutton erroneously states that it contains the logarithms to 8 places, ... Briggs continued to labour assiduously at the calculation of* logarithms ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Hutton erroneously states that it contains the logarithms to 8 places, ... Briggs continued to labour assiduously at the calculation of logarithms, ..."

4. Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by David Andrew Rothrock (1910)
"With 16 as base, what numbers correspond to the following logarithms : 2, |, f, ... Systems of logarithms. Any number (excluding 0 and 1) may be taken as a ..."

5. A College Algebra by Henry Burchard Fine (1904)
"COMMON logarithms Computation of common logarithms. For the purposes of 741 numerical reckoning we employ logarithms to the base 10. ..."

6. Algebra: An Elementary Text-book, for the Higher Classes of Secondary by George Chrystal (1904)
"Let us suppose that we know the logarithms z, and x, of two given numbers, y, and y0; then we can find the logarithms of as many numbers lying between yi ..."

7. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"Many formulae require Natural logarithms (also called Napierian or Hyperbolic logarithms), and it is convenient to have at hand a table of these logarithms ..."

8. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Whereas, if any one looks into the tables of logarithms, he will find, ... Dr. Wallis, in his history of algebra, calls logarithms the indexes of the ratios ..."

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