With the help of a series of videos, here you get clear & understandable notes on calculation of logarithms and use of log tables.

THE publication of these tables helps to mark a change in the use of logarithms, both for teaching and practical purposes. Nowadays most teachers use four-figure tables for teaching purposes, even ...

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 ...

Essentially, this was a table of logarithms to a very unusual base: 1.0001. Why such a strange base? Because it allowed interpolation to a higher accuracy than using a larger base.

In this video we will study some basic properties of logarithms and use logarithmic tables. There are total five videos on this topic and this is the Part 1.

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 ...

When dealing in terms such as that, business dealings become baffling,--almost impossible. In every shop in Germany business is transacted by means of a printed placard very like a logarithm table.