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:
(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:
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
and to the common logarithm by
.