Logarithms are a shortcut for exponents. There are patterns in logarithms that are fairly easy to understand. For example, the logarithm of 100 to base 10 is 2. The logarithm of 1000 to base 10 is 3.

This post offers reasons for using logarithmic scales, also called log scales, on charts and graphs. It explains when logarithmic graphs with base 2 are preferred to logarithmic graphs with base ...

C. C. Heyde, On Central Limit and Iterated Logarithm Supplements to the Martingale Convergence Theorem, Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Dec., 1977 ...

In 1614, John Napier published the work that would establish logarithms as a viable means for calculating large numbers, enabling countless advances in the centuries since then ...