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Napierian [nuh-peer-ee-uhn]

Napierian logarithm

The term Napierian logarithm, or Naperian logarithm, is often used to mean the natural logarithm, but as first defined by John Napier, it is a function which can be defined in terms of the modern logarithm by:

mathrm{NapLog}(x) = frac{log frac{10^7}{x}}{log frac{10^7}{10^7 - 1}}.

(Being a quotient of logarithms, the base of the logarithm chosen is irrelevant.)

It is not a logarithm to any particular base in the modern sense of the term, however, it can be rewritten as:

mathrm{NapLog}(x) = log_{frac{10^7}{10^7 - 1}} 10^7 - log_{frac{10^7}{10^7 - 1}} x

and hence it is a linear function of a particular logarithm, and so satisfies identities quite similar to the modern one.

The Napierian logarithm is related to the natural logarithm by the relation

mathrm{NapLog} (x) approx 9999999.5 (16.11809565 - ln(x))

and to the common logarithm by

mathrm{NapLog} (x) approx 23025850 (7 - log_{10}(x)).

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