You may find this hard to believe, but there are people still alive today who once did their mathematical calculations by sliding sticks back and forth. No keypads, no batteries, no LEDs. Just sticks.

THOUGH John Napier was a physicist, astronomer and astrologer, his most famous achievements were founded in his work as a mathematician. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you ...

Logarithms are a common idea today, even though we don’t use them as often as we used to. After all, one of the major uses of logarithms is to simplify computations, and computers do that just fine ...

There was a time not so long ago when calculators weren’t standard equipment for computations. The log() button did not exist, and some math had to be done by hand. John Napier and his logarithm ...

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For Napierian logarithms, the base is number 'e', called as Napier's base named after the mathematician Napier. What are Napierian Logarithms? Normal Logarithms are worked out with number 10 as base.