Calculating stock growth rates can be challenging and seem intimidating, especially with all the numbers and terminology getting thrown around. Every investor has a preferred way of calculating that ...

HAVING been asked to give a short course of lectures to working men, which involved an account of logarithms and the slide-rule, I felt that, although not important, there would be some advantage in ...

In 1614, John Napier published the work that would establish logarithms as a viable means for calculating large numbers, enabling countless advances in the centuries since then. There was a time not ...

THE publication of Mr. Dufton's method will, I think, serve a useful purpose. It is a common exercise in schools to plot on squared paper, numbers and their logarithms to the base 2 (see Blame's ...