Noun:

लोगारित्म,

logarithms's Usage Examples:

The more one considers the condition of science at the time, and the state of the country in which the discovery took place, the more wonderful does the invention of logarithms appear.

Napier's priority in the publication of the logarithms is unquestioned and only one other contemporary mathematician seems to have conceived the idea on which they depend.

The different editions of the Descriptio and Constructio, as well as the reception of logarithms on the continent of Europe, and especially by Kepler, whose admiration of the invention almost equalled that of Briggs, belong to the history of logarithms (q.v.).

2 In this treatise (which was written before Napier had invented the name logarithm) logarithms are called "artificial numbers."

He speaks of the canon of logarithms as "a me longo tempore elaboratum."

This work contains the first announcement of logarithms to the world, the first table of logarithms and the first use of the name logarithm, which was invented by Napier.

pp. 66-92, 1873, Henry Wace gave a simple and clear account of both the logarithmic and antilogarithmic processes, with tables of both Briggian and hyperbolic logarithms of factors of the form I t I r n to 20 places.

He contributed two memoirs to the Philosophical Transactions, one, "Logometria," which discusses the calculation of logarithms and certain applications of the infinitesimal calculus, the other, a "Description of the great fiery meteor seen on March 6th, 1716."

The table gives the logarithms of sines for every minute to seven figures.

JOHN NAPIER (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician and inventor of logarithms, was born at Merchiston near Edinburgh in 1550, and was the eighth Napier of Merchiston.

Synonyms:

exponent, index, natural logarithm, power, Napierian logarithm, common logarithm, log,

Antonyms:

powerless, powerful, unpersuasiveness, uninterestingness, powerlessness,