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… ...

Logarithms are a common idea today, even though we don’t use them as often as we used to. After all, one of the major uses of logarithms is to simplify computations, and computers do that jus… ...

Logarithms were in use for hundreds of years until mechanical machines were able to calculate larger numbers in the late 19th century, and eventually, computers took over the task in the 20th century.

The priority encoder output drives the barrel shifter’s shift-count input, which normalizes the input so that the most significant ‘1’ bit of the input is now the msb of the barrel-shifter output ...

Because logarithms relate geometric progressions to arithmetic progressions, examples are found throughout nature and art, such as the spacing of guitar frets, mineral hardness, and the ...

Today’s commonly used base 10 logarithms were introduced in primitive form by Henry Briggs after Napier died in 1617. (Briggs acknowledged, though, that it was Napier’s idea to do so.) ...

Logarithms make things like this a lot more comprehensible; they make the whole Great Chain of Being visible, they permit interpolation and prediction, and they run almost from 1 to 10.

CONFUSED by logarithms? If so, you’ll be surprised to hear they come naturally to pigeons and possibly, subconsciously, to you. There are asymmetries in the way animals perceive numbers and time ...