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logarithmands

logarithmands is the plural of logarithmand.

Meaning of logarithmand

Noun

logarithmand (plural logarithmands)

  1. (rare) The number for which one is obtaining a logarithm. Thus, if a = bᶜ, then c is the logarithm (base b) of a, and a is the logarithmand.
    • Let us now understand by an actual logarithm, a symbol of the form log a, in which a is any positive number, while b is any positive number > 1, and which denotes such a positive or negative number or zero, that when the “base” b is potentiated by it, the result will be the “logarithmand” a,—the...1843, Alexander John Ellis, transl., The Spirit of Mathematical Analysis, and Its Relation to a Logical System, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], translation of original by Martin Ohm, part I (The...

Questions about logarithmands

What is logarithmands the plural of?
Logarithmands is the plural of logarithmand.

Words near logarithmands in the dictionary

  1. Logar
  2. logarithm
  3. logarithmal
  4. logarithmancy
  5. logarithmand
  6. logarithmands
  7. logarithmetic
  8. logarithmetical
  9. logarithmetically
  10. logarithmic
  11. logarithmic decrement

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