I'm a sophomore in Algebra 2 and when in the world are we going to use logarithms in life?
2006-12-08 11:14:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
They are used in science & engineering all the time.
Don't forget the reason logarithms were originally developed was to simplify multiplication and division, long before there was such a thing as calculators. Prior to the invention of a calculator, everything was done by hand and the large numbers became very tedious to work with. using logs allowed them to change multiplication and division into addition and subtraction and made their work go much quicker.
2006-12-08 11:26:25 · answer #1 · answered by rm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably won't have to use them in life since people before you created computers that can do logarithms.
2006-12-08 11:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work in the field of digital signal processing. Here we work with power and measure things in dB. Logarithms are a part of this.
2006-12-08 11:22:56 · answer #3 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hint: opposite powers by employing utilising logarithms. So opposite a^n by employing taking the log of a^n with a base a; n=log[a](a^n) And opposite log base a by employing taking the ability of a. a^(log[a](n))=n.
2016-12-30 04:11:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares when you're going to use them in life, the point of learning things like that is to teach you how to think. If you only learned things you would use later in life, everyone would be pretty badly educated.
2006-12-08 12:08:09 · answer #5 · answered by person 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you use logarithms in college.
2006-12-08 11:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by aficionado210 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked my Pre-calc teacher the same question when we studied them and her response was never.
2006-12-08 11:24:04 · answer #7 · answered by Serenity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
university
2006-12-08 11:20:42 · answer #8 · answered by rod_dollente 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋