The Logarithms Tutorial - Section 1

Summary

This tutorial describes logarithms: what they are and how they may be used.

Objectives

If you complete this tutorial you should be able to

• Represent numbers like 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc as 'powers of ten'
• Determine the logarithm of a power of ten
• Estimate the logarithm of other numbers greater than 1
• Multiply numbers using logarithms
• Divide numbers using logarithms