How to Use logarithm in a Sentence

logarithm

noun

• Finding the power of 10 that a number is raised to is exactly what a logarithm does.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 27 Nov. 2020
• The same team of researchers also computed a discrete logarithm of the same size.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 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
• 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
• Salguero: The bike is, theoretically, according to all our logging and logarithms and stuff, capable of over 160 mph.
  — Wes Siler, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2011
• Estimates that are widely accepted in the field of cryptography predict that the larger size logarithm should be about 2.25 times harder to compute.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• 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
• As a refresher: log is short for logarithm, which helps people decipher exponents that make numbers squared or cubed or even something higher.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2019
• Given that a function can’t be divided by zero and zero has no logarithm, this value might cause software to malfunction if it wasn’t specifically planned for.
  — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2021
• Like logarithms, or the zero, or exponential functions.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But GAMs can also handle trickier relationships by finding multiple operations that together can massage data to fit on a regression line: squaring a set of numbers while taking the logarithm for another group of variables, for example.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 6 July 2017
• Other encryption algorithms base their security on the difficulty of solving certain discrete logarithm problems.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024