The earliest definition of this term involved the use of tens to the seventh and negative seventh and was named for John Napier.
The earliest definition of this term involved the use of tens to the seventh and negative seventh and was named for John Napier. Numbers of this type are made up of an integer called the characteristic and a fraction called the mantissa. Taking this operation to the multiplication of two components is equivalent to adding the values of this operation to those components individually. The derivative of one type of this function is equal to one over x. That type is taken in the base of e and is called the natural type of this. For 10 points, name this function that is the inverse of an exponent.
The earliest definition of this term involved the use of tens to the seventh and negative seventh and was named for John Napier.
{logarithms} [or Napierian logarithms; or natural logarithms]