English-Finnish translations for logarithm

logaritmiHiilidioksidin kasvihuonevaikutus on logaritminen, toisin sanoen vähenevän tuoton laki. The greenhouse effect of CO2 is logarithmic; that is, it is a law of diminishing returns. Vai onko se logaritminen käyrä, jossa lisääntyvä hiilidioksidipitoisuus aiheuttaa yhä vähemmän lämpenemistä, ja muuttuu lopulta tasaiseksi viivaksi? Or is it a logarithmic graph, where extra amounts of CO2 cause less and less extra warming, eventually becoming a flat line?

For a number $x$ , the power to which a given ''base'number must be raised in order to obtain $x$ . Written $\log_b x$ . For example, $\log_{10} 1000 = 3$ because $10^3 = 1000$ and $\log_2 16 = 4$ because $2^4 = 16$

For a currency which uses denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, etc., each jump in the base-10 logarithm from one denomination to the next higher is either 0.3010 or 0.3979.

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