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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A logarithm in which the base is the irrational number e (= 2.71828 … ). For example, ln 10 = loge10 = approximately 2.30258.
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- noun mathematics The
logarithm inbase e ; either the function that given returns such that or the value of .
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- noun a logarithm to the base e
Etymologies
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From New Latin log naturalis, coined in 1668 by Nicholas Mercator in his book Logarithmo-technica.
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