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 ...

Revise what logarithms are and how to use the 'log' buttons on a scientific calculator as part of Higher Maths.

Abstract A YEAR ago Prof. Perry drew attention to a method by which a schoolboy knowing how to extract square roots could, with the help of squared paper, construct a table of logarithms (NATURE ...

Scientific calculators were invaluable to most of us through high school and college, freeing us from the yoke of using tables to calculate logarithms and trigonometric functions. Once out in the r… ...