A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for scientists and ...

Log tables, invaluable in science, industry and commerce for 350 years, have been consigned to the scrap heap. But logarithms remain at the core of science, as a wide range of physical phenomena ...

THE logarithmic law relating sensation and stimulus intensity which was first put forward by Fechner 1 has in recent years been seriously challenged: it is claimed that experiment can show directly ...