I'd never have guessed, in the days when I used to paw through my grubby book of logarithms in maths classes, that I'd come to look back with fondness on these tables of cryptic decimals. In those ...

You may find this hard to believe, but there are people still alive today who once did their mathematical calculations by sliding sticks back and forth. No keypads, no batteries, no LEDs. Just sticks.

There was a time not so long ago when calculators weren’t standard equipment for computations. The log() button did not exist, and some math had to be done by hand. John Napier and his logarithm ...

Now that you know what \({\log _a}x\) means, you should know and be able to use the following results, known as the laws of logarithms.

Logarithms come in the form \({\log _a}x\). We say this as 'log to the base \(a\) of \(x\). But what does \({\log _a}x\) mean? The answer is \(4\) because \({2^4 ...

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, and ...