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Napierian logarithm

Mathematical function

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
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The term Napierian logarithm or Naperian logarithm, named after the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550–1617), is often used to mean the natural logarithm. Napier did not introduce this natural logarithmic function, although it is named after him.

However, if it is taken to mean the "logarithms" as originally produced by Napier, it is a function given by :

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This entry incorporates text from “Napierian logarithm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.