Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
logarithm
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
English
Etymology
From New Latin logarithmus, term coined by Scottish mathematician John Napier from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, reckoning”) and ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”); compare rational number, from analogous Latin.
Pronunciation
Noun
logarithm (plural logarithms)
- (mathematics) For a number , the exponent by which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain the power . Written . For example, because and because .
- For a currency which uses denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, etc., each jump in the base-10 logarithm from one denomination to the next higher is either 0.3010 or 0.3979.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- antilogarithm
- binary logarithm
- Briggsian logarithm
- Briggs logarithm
- cologarithm
- common logarithm
- dilogarithm
- log
- logarithmal
- logarithmancy
- logarithmic
- logarithmisation
- logarithmise, logarithmize
- logarithmize
- mesologarithm
- Naperian logarithm
- Napierian logarithm
- natural logarithm
- polylogarithm
- superlogarithm
- ternary logarithm
- trilogarithm
Translations
The power to which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain a given number
|
See also
Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
- successor
- addition, summation:
- subtraction:
- (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication, factorization:
- (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
- (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
- division:
- exponentiation:
- root extraction:
- logarithmization:
- log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
Anagrams
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads