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[parent] table of natural logarithms (Data Structure)

This table is for integers in the range $-1 < n < 100$ . To find the natural logarithm (that is, with base $e$ , the natural log base) for the desired $n$ , look for the ten's place digit (0 in the case of $-1 < n < 10$ ) in the leftmost column and the one's place digit in the topmost row. The intersection $x$ of that row and column thus gives $\log n$ to four or five decimal places.

$n$ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 $-\infty$ 0.0000 0.69315 1.09861 1.38629 1.60944 1.79176 1.94591 2.07944 2.19722
1 2.30259 2.3979 2.48491 2.56495 2.63906 2.70805 2.77259 2.83321 2.89037 2.94444
2 2.99573 3.04452 3.09104 3.13549 3.17805 3.21888 3.2581 3.29584 3.3322 3.3673
3 3.4012 3.43399 3.46574 3.49651 3.52636 3.55535 3.58352 3.61092 3.63759 3.66356
4 3.68888 3.71357 3.73767 3.7612 3.78419 3.80666 3.82864 3.85015 3.8712 3.89182
5 3.91202 3.93183 3.95124 3.97029 3.98898 4.00733 4.02535 4.04305 4.06044 4.07754
6 4.09434 4.11087 4.12713 4.14313 4.15888 4.17439 4.18965 4.20469 4.21951 4.23411
7 4.2485 4.26268 4.27667 4.29046 4.30407 4.31749 4.33073 4.34381 4.35671 4.36945
8 4.38203 4.39445 4.40672 4.41884 4.43082 4.44265 4.45435 4.46591 4.47734 4.48864
9 4.49981 4.51086 4.52179 4.5326 4.54329 4.55388 4.56435 4.57471 4.58497 4.59512




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Cross-references: decimal places, intersection, row, column, digit, place, natural log base, base, natural logarithm, range, integers

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AMS MSC26-00 (Real functions :: General reference works )
 26A09 (Real functions :: Functions of one variable :: Elementary functions)
 26A06 (Real functions :: Functions of one variable :: One-variable calculus)

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Logarithms: Something more is needed by CompositeFan on 2008-06-13 09:42:16
So as I understand the concept, logarithms used to help perform arithmetic with large numbers that is so often crucial to science. I also understand that logarithms "step down" multiplication to addition, division to subtraction, etc. But what I don't understand is: how did they step the result back up? Even with base 10 logarithms, the result would often be a number with a fractional part, so getting the result wouldn't be as easy as writing a bunch of zeroes after a one. So something is missing in this picture.

Well, next time you yell at your computer for taking a little long with an operation, be grateful you have a computer at all.
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