How to Use logarithm in a Sentence

logarithm

noun
  • The same team of researchers also computed a discrete logarithm of the same size.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The same team also computed a discrete logarithm of a different key of the same size.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 July 2022
  • Finding the power of 10 that a number is raised to is exactly what a logarithm does.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 27 Nov. 2020
  • This relationship can be seen most visually by taking the logarithm of both sides.
    — Korok Ray, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But unlike logarithms or formulas, there was no registry for sequences of numbers.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Technology is great, but sometimes answers are simpler than a logarithm.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • And in her hyper-active mind there is no boundary between mathematic logarithms and the poetry of music.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • In physics, the formula for entropy involves taking a logarithm of possible physical states.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The logarithm function is well-known in the non-linear scales for energy released during earthquakes (Richter) or for measuring sound (decibels).
    — Christian Yates, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The new algorithm checks planarity in a number of steps proportional to the cube of the logarithm of the number of nodes in the graph — an exponential improvement.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Computer scientists generally believe that there is no quick way to find the discrete logarithm with a classical computer.
    — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Sequencers express their quality scores as logarithms of error probabilities.
    — Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
  • During the trip Jack calculated for his father a table of logarithms, and as a reward, on the last day of the successful tests, John Scott decided his son should have a dive.
    — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Traditional encryption uses schemes based on complex mathematics such as factoring (breaking an integer down to its prime factors) or discrete logarithm.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2021
  • An economic adviser talked up the country’s technological achievements, which include the publication of an early volume of logarithm tables.
    — Leo Mirani, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • Information theory says that the optimal encoding makes the length of each symbol (in bits) proportional to the negative logarithm of its probability.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 June 2018
  • Other encryption algorithms base their security on the difficulty of solving certain discrete logarithm problems.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Since the number of active phase shifters scales as the binary logarithm of the number of waveguides, log base 2, our system requires approximately 10 phase shifters to select the waveguide input and steer the optical beam.
    — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
  • In a simple statistical model, Manrubia and her colleagues showed that the average number of generations separating two random present-day individuals from a common genealogical ancestor depends on the logarithm of the relevant population’s size.
    — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Their functions included computing higher-order multiplications, exponents and logarithms, among other mathematical operations.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024

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