Logarithms celebrate their 400th birthday Four centuries ago, John Napier provided human calculators a faster way to multiply ...

The tendency of 'uneducated' people to compress the number scale for big numbers is actually an admirable way of measuring the world, says Philip Ball.

PART IV. of this monumental work, the third to be published, gives the logarithms of numbers between 40,000 and 50,000. These were obtained by adding the logarithm of 0.5 to the logarithms of all ...