Logarithms work by providing a method that allows more complex mathematical operations such as multiplication, division, and calculating of a root to be done by means of addition and subtraction.

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.

It is a common exercise in schools to plot on squared paper, numbers and their logarithms to the base 2 (see Blame's “Methods of Calculating,” Spon), to give a general notion of how the ...