Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Logarithms often seem intimidating, but when you understand the basic concepts and learn how to solve them without a calculator, you’ll find that they are an essential and powerful tool in mathematics ...

Logarithms, or “logs”, are an essential mathematical concept with wide applications in various domains, such as physics, engineering, and computer science. But what if you need to calculate logarithms ...

A logarithm is a mathematical operation that determines how many times a certain number, called the base, is multiplied by itself to reach another number. Because logarithms relate geometric ...

You may find this hard to believe, but there are people still alive today who once did their mathematical calculations by sliding sticks back and forth. No keypads, no batteries, no LEDs. Just sticks.

Early in BASIC's history, its creators, John Kemeny (left) and Thomas Kurtz (center) go over a program with a Dartmouth student Early in BASIC's history, its creators, John Kemeny (left) and Thomas ...

What Is A Littelfuse Varistor? Varistors are voltage dependent, nonlinear devices which have an electrical behavior similar to back-to-back zener diodes. The symmetrical, sharp breakdown ...

What is selling, really? Ask ten salespeople you’ll get ten different answers. Ask ten executive, you’ll get ten more. But what is selling, really? IMHO, selling can be boiled down to the following ...

I'd never have guessed, in the days when I used to paw through my grubby book of logarithms in maths classes, that I'd come to look back with fondness on these tables of cryptic decimals. In those ...