Crossword-Solution: LOGARITHM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Logarithm | n. | One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LOGARITHM | anagram | ALGORITHM |
We have 15 clues for the answer “LOGARITHM”
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| In math, it may be common or natural | 1 answer |
| Math exponent | 1 answer |
| Math-table number | 1 answer |
| Mathematical exponent | 1 answer |
| Mathematics function | 1 answer |
| Power to which base is raised | 1 answer |
| Power to which base number must be raised to obtain a given number | 1 answer |
| Slide rule number | 1 answer |
| Slide rule's basis | 1 answer |
| Slide-rule number | 1 answer |
| The opposite of raising the number to a power, in math | 1 answer |
| What turns 1,000 into 3, in base 10 | 1 answer |
| one of a series of arithmetical functions used to make certain calculations easier | 1 answer |
| the exponent required to produce a given number | 1 answer |
| Math term | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with LOGARITHM (5)
The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.
Decision on this system cannot be reached without long experience, for it is always to be remembered that the man's point of view of attractiveness may shift, and he may come to regard the intellectual graces as supremely attractive; while, on the other hand, the woman student may find that a winning smile is just as effective in bringing a man to her feet, where he belongs, as a logarithm.
When I turn over the pages of Biometrika, a quarterly journal in which is recorded the work done in the field of biological statistics by Professor Karl Pearson and his colleagues, I am out of my depth at the first line, because mathematics are to me only a concept: I never used a logarithm in my life, and could not undertake to extract the square root of four without misgiving.
Maddock: "Last Saturday morning I rose early, and got up some rather abstruse problems in mechanics for my tutor, spent an hour with him, between eight and nine got my breakfast, and read the Greek History (at breakfast) till ten, then sat down to decipher some logarithm tables.
Wright and his eldest son, John, set up a business for calculating the value of insurance policies, in which the logarithm machine helped them to obtain a large income.
Quotes with LOGARITHM (2)
Personally, I think sex should be like math. At school. No one really cares if they're crap at math. They even proclaim it. They'll say to anyone, "Yeah, I don't mind science and English, but I'm absolutely shithouse at math." And other people will laugh and say," Yeah, me too. I would have a clue about all that logarithm shit. You should be able to say that about sex too. You should be proudly able to say, "Yeah I wouldn't have a clue about all that orgasm shit, ay. I'm okay…
The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought f…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1998–2017).