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Post by borchester on Nov 28, 2022 19:48:00 GMT
John Napier of Merchiston, nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. His Latinized name was Ioannes Neper. John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. Napierian logarithms. Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh is where is where I got my degree. Does anyone use logarithms these days? Most researchers in the sciences.
With luck you can use it to covert wedges of lumpy data into straight line graphs, or something similar
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Post by Toreador on Nov 28, 2022 21:47:44 GMT
Does anyone use logarithms these days? Most researchers in the sciences.
With luck you can use it to covert wedges of lumpy data into straight line graphs, or something similar
Yes I used them when I "was in the sciences" but that was 65 years ago or more. I used to be able to work out the logarithm for a particular number but I'm damned if I can remember how. |
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Post by besoeker3 on Nov 29, 2022 16:30:50 GMT
Does anyone use logarithms these days? Most researchers in the sciences.
With luck you can use it to covert wedges of lumpy data into straight line graphs, or something similar
I have. Engineering was my forte. |
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