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 ...

Puns, math, references to Bob Ross, the outdoors, and a really kind teacher: That’s the combination school children deserve, dang it! And yet it almost never happens. But that’s OK; the world’s still ...

THERE can be little doubt that much time is lost by students and others who have occasion to make numerical calculations through unfamiliarity with the practical advantages of logarithms. In the ...

THE first portion of this book treats of the way to use logarithms so as to apply no more figures than necessary; the author pointing out that probably one half of the time expended in computations is ...

I have a histogram with 200 buckets. 2/3 of the data is between 0 and 20, the rest settles down quickly but I need to keep an eye on the tail. I'd like to plot this such that 0-20 takes up about 2/3 ...