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==Tables of logarithms== ...page=114}}</ref> This required the calculation of trigonometric tables and logarithms corresponding to the new unit and instruments for measuring angles in the n ...

...The unit's name derives from the name of [[John Napier]], the inventor of logarithms. As is the case for the [[decibel]] and [[Bel (unit)|bel]], the neper is a ...per und Normzahlen |language=de |trans-title=The decilog, a bridge between logarithms, decibel, neper and preferred numbers |journal=VDI-Zeitschrift |volume=98 | ...

...]] are functions built from basic operations (e.g. addition, exponentials, logarithms...) ...

...combination of logarithms, where the coefficients and the arguments of the logarithms are elementary functions involved, in some sense, in the definition of the ...ementary functions are built using algebraic operations, exponentials, and logarithms, and are represented in differential fields of meromorphic functions on reg ...

...Highly skewed data are often transformed by taking logarithms. The use of logarithms makes graphs more symmetrical and look more similar to the [[normal distrib ...

Like all logarithms, the natural logarithm maps multiplication of positive numbers into additio ...defined for any positive base other than 1, not only {{mvar|e}}. However, logarithms in other bases differ only by a constant multiplier from the natural logari ...

...Problems'', and in 1888 ''Examples for Practice in the Use of Seven-figure Logarithms''. ...

...|exponentials]] with the same base cancel each other. This is true because logarithms and exponentials are inverse operations{{snd}}much like the same way multip ...re documented in the table below.<ref>{{Cite web|title=4.3 - Properties of Logarithms|url=https://people.richland.edu/james/lecture/m116/logs/properties.html|acc ...

...trigonometric functions]] took almost 30 more instructions.<ref name=eng/> Logarithms are about 40 instructions, with anti-log taking about 20 more.<ref name=eng ...easy reference. For converting to and from base 10 logarithms and natural logarithms, the natural logarithm of 10 (2.30259) and e (2.71828) are printed on the c ...

...ring this time either.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=John Napier : life, logarithms, and legacy|last=Havil, Julian, 1952-|isbn=9781400852185|location=Princeton Modern English translations of both Napier's books on logarithms and their description can be found on the web, as well as a discussion of [ ...

...{ISBN|0521026202}}), page 199</ref><ref>Julian Havil, ''John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy'' (2014, {{ISBN|1400852188}}), page 19</ref> ...

...uation tells us something about [[complex logarithm]]s by relating natural logarithms to imaginary (complex) numbers. Bernoulli, however, did not evaluate the in ...fully understand [[complex logarithm]]s. Euler also suggested that complex logarithms can have infinitely many values. ...

...numbers ''explicitly'' defined in terms of polynomials, exponentials, and logarithms – this does not include all algebraic numbers, but does include some simple ...

...997 |title=Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer |journal=SIAM Journal on Computing |volume=26 |issue= ...ibution = Quantum resource estimates for computing elliptic curve discrete logarithms ...

...garithm]] {{tmath|\ln}} of each number, finding the arithmetic mean of the logarithms, and then returning the result to linear scale by using the [[exponential f ==={{anchor|Log-average}}Formulation using logarithms ===<!--"Log-average" redirects here--> ...

==== Logarithms ==== ...]s of [[topological space]]s, though they lack some of the properties that logarithms of positive real numbers possess.<ref>Robert A. McCoy and Ibula Ntantu, Top ...

...Adriaan Vlacq]], Vega's version corrected numerous errors and extended the logarithms of trigonometric functions for small angles. An engineer, Franc Allmer, an ...

==Inverse functions as logarithms== ...

...|title=A Public-Key Cryptosystem and a Signature Scheme Based on Discrete Logarithms |journal=IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |volume=31 |issue=4 |year= ...

...elements of <math>\mathrm{GF}(q)</math> are represented by their discrete logarithms, multiplication and division are easy, as they reduce to addition and subtr allows one to solve this problem by constructing the table of the discrete logarithms of <math>a^n+1</math>, called [[Zech's logarithm]]s, for <math>n=0,\ldots,q ...