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The 50 pages that link to Logarithm, each with the reason it gives.

• Acid dissociation constantRelated: pKa is defined as the negative base-ten logarithm of Ka.

• Domain of a functionRelated: A real logarithm requires a positive argument, restricting the input domain.

• Henderson–Hasselbalch equationRelated: The logarithmic form makes pH depend on the conjugate-pair ratio by its base-ten logarithm.

• AllometryRelated: Logarithms make scaling exponents estimable from biological measurements.

• Shannon entropyRelated: The logarithm turns probabilities into information values and sets entropy's units.

• pKaRelated: The base-ten logarithm turns widely varying Ka values into manageable pKa values.

• CodomainRelated: Its real-valued domain corresponds to the positive range of the real exponential function.

• Geometric meanRelated: Taking logarithms turns the geometric mean into an arithmetic mean of log-values.

• Partial functionRelated: The real logarithm is defined only for positive arguments when its base is valid.

• Binary searchRelated: The number of halvings needed to reduce n candidates is proportional to log₂ n.

• ExponentRelated: Logarithms recover an exponent from a known base and result.

• Hammett acidity functionRelated: H₀ uses a negative base-ten logarithm to express protonating power.

• Stirling's approximationRelated: Taking logarithms makes factorial growth easier to estimate and expand.

• Chernoff boundRelated: Taking logarithms expresses optimized tail bounds through rate functions.

• CompoundingRelated: Logarithms help solve for the time required to reach a target under compound growth.

• Powers of tenRelated: A base-ten logarithm identifies the power of ten associated with a number.

• Rudolphine TablesRelated: Kepler used logarithms to reduce the labor of the extensive numerical calculations.

• Naive Bayes classifierRelated: Implementations sum log probabilities to avoid numerical underflow from multiplying many small values.

• Indeterminate formRelated: Taking logarithms converts indeterminate powers such as 1^∞ into quotient limits.

• Log-normal distributionRelated: Applying the natural logarithm turns a log-normal variable into a normal one.

• Maximum a posteriori estimationRelated: Taking logarithms often makes posterior maximization easier without changing its optimizer.

• Napier's bonesRelated: Napier's bones appeared alongside his broader program of simplifying numerical calculation.

• History of trigonometryRelated: Logarithmic tables greatly reduced the labor of multiplying trigonometric values.

• Product (mathematics)Related: Logarithms turn products of positive numbers into sums of their logarithms.

• Geiger–Nuttall lawRelated: Taking logarithms makes the law’s steep energy dependence approximately linear.

• Benford's lawRelated: The law's digit probabilities come from logarithms of ratios between successive powers of ten.

• Brun–Titchmarsh theoremRelated: The factor log(x/q) sets the scale of the theorem’s upper bound.

• Bohr–Mollerup theoremRelated: Taking the logarithm converts the theorem's multiplicative convexity condition into convexity.

• Jost BürgiRelated: His logarithmic tables made numerical calculations easier before mechanical calculators.