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    The natural logarithm of a number is its logarithm to the base of the mathematical constant e, which is an irrational and transcendental number approximately...
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    base b. The logarithm base 10 is called the decimal or common logarithm and is commonly used in science and engineering. The natural logarithm has the number e...
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    mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.71828 that is the base of the natural logarithm and exponential function. It is sometimes called Euler's number, after...
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    In mathematics, the natural logarithm of 2 is the unique real number argument such that the exponential function equals two. It appears frequently in...
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    exponential function is occasionally called the natural exponential function, matching the name natural logarithm, for distinguishing it from some other functions...
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    the common logarithm (aka "standard logarithm") is the logarithm with base 10. It is also known as the decadic logarithm, the decimal logarithm and the Briggsian...
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  • positive values, this is equal to the derivative of ln(f), or the natural logarithm of f. This follows directly from the chain rule: d d x ln ⁡ f ( x...
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    In mathematics, a complex logarithm is a generalization of the natural logarithm to nonzero complex numbers. The term refers to one of the following, which...
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  • the natural logarithm function mapping the real numbers to themselves. The logarithm of a non-positive real is not a real number, so the natural logarithm...
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    equal to 1.380649 × 10−23 J/K, and ln {\displaystyle \ln } is the natural logarithm function (or log base e, as in the image above). In short, the Boltzmann...
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    binary logarithm of 1 is 0, the binary logarithm of 2 is 1, the binary logarithm of 4 is 2, and the binary logarithm of 32 is 5. The binary logarithm is the...
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  • \over 3}-{1 \over 4}+{1 \over 5}-\cdots ,} which has a sum of the natural logarithm of 2, while the sum of the absolute values of the terms is the harmonic...
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    science and engineering until the 1970s. A breakthrough generating the natural logarithm was the result of a search for an expression of area against a rectangular...
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    numbers b, in terms of exponential and logarithm function. Specifically, the fact that the natural logarithm ln(x) is the inverse of the exponential...
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    functions. The area of a hyperbolic sector in standard position is natural logarithm of b . Proof: Integrate under 1/x from 1 to b, add triangle {(0, 0)...
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    Napierian logarithm or Naperian logarithm, named after John Napier, is often used to mean the natural logarithm. Napier did not introduce this natural logarithmic...
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    the binary iterated logarithm, which iterates the binary logarithm (with base 2 {\displaystyle 2} ) instead of the natural logarithm (with base e). Mathematically...
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    we find the Maclaurin series of ln(1 − x), where ln denotes the natural logarithm: − x − 1 2 x 2 − 1 3 x 3 − 1 4 x 4 − ⋯ . {\displaystyle -x-{\tfrac...
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    {\displaystyle e^{ix}=\cos x+i\sin x,} where e is the base of the natural logarithm, i is the imaginary unit, and cos and sin are the trigonometric functions...
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    natural unit of information (symbol: nat), sometimes also nit or nepit, is a unit of information or information entropy, based on natural logarithms and...
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  • numbers already noted above. The nth derivative of the μth power of the natural logarithm involves the signed Stirling numbers of the first kind: d n ( ln ⁡...
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  • x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} is a sample point in each interval. The natural logarithm ln ⁡ ( 1 + x ) {\displaystyle \ln(1+x)} has a well-known Taylor series...
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  • \ln } is the natural logarithm and γ ≈ 0.577 {\displaystyle \gamma \approx 0.577} is the Euler–Mascheroni constant. Because the logarithm has arbitrarily...
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  • {(-1)^{k+1}}{k}}(z-1)^{k}} is a power series corresponding to the natural logarithm near z = 1. This power series can be turned into a germ g = ( 1 ,...
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  • In mathematics, a logarithm of a matrix is another matrix such that the matrix exponential of the latter matrix equals the original matrix. It is thus...
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    t_{1/2}={\frac {\ln(2)}{\lambda }}=\tau \ln(2)} where ln(2) is the natural logarithm of 2 (approximately 0.693).: 112  In chemical kinetics, the value...
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    calculated by taking the natural logarithm ⁠ ln {\displaystyle \ln } ⁠ of each number, finding the arithmetic mean of the logarithms, and then returning the...
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  • series for ex. The Taylor series for the principal branch of the natural logarithm in the neighborhood of 1 is well known: log ⁡ ( 1 + x ) = x − x 2...
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    The general logarithm, to an arbitrary positive base, Euler presents as the inverse of an exponential function. Then the natural logarithm is obtained...
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    definition of the constant e {\displaystyle e} , the base of the natural logarithm, now known as Euler's number. Euler made contributions to applied...
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