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 ...

From a university spin-off company in the North of England comes a microprocessor that is claimed to be the first to operate directly on numbers that it holds in a logarithmic representation. The ...