A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for scientists and ...

[Ihsan Kehribar] points out a clever trick you can use to quickly and efficiently compute the logarithm of a 32-bit integer. The technique relies on the CLZ instruction which counts the number of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What a difference a century makes. In 1914 the most prominent historians of mathematics gathered to celebrate the 300th anniversary of ...