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This document explains how to calculate antilogarithms, or 10x for any value of x, by using memorized logarithm values and correcting for errors. It provides examples of calculating 101.23456 and 102.71828. The method efficiently computes antilogarithms through an iterative process of finding a close logarithm and correcting based on the error.

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How To Calculate Antilogarithms - World Mental Calculation

This document explains how to calculate antilogarithms, or 10x for any value of x, by using memorized logarithm values and correcting for errors. It provides examples of calculating 101.23456 and 102.71828. The method efficiently computes antilogarithms through an iterative process of finding a close logarithm and correcting based on the error.

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How to Calculate Antilogarithms


In this article we learn to calculate 10x for any value of x, often called the antilogarithm
of x.

This is required for the method to calculate difficult roots and powers.

To understand this page you will need to have understood the method for calculating
logarithms, because the antilogarithm method is the reverse of that.

Method:

Using the memorized values for various logarithms, find a number whose
logarithm is close to the target number
Find the error between the target and this logarithm and if necessary return to
the previous step to find a better candidate logarithm
When you have selected a sufficiently close logarithm and have calculated its
error, compute the correction factor, which is approximately 1% for every
0.00432 in the error

Example #1:

We wish to calculate 101.23456

We already memorized log 1.7 = 0.23045

Therefore 101.23456 = 10 ∗ 1.7 ∗ 10


0.00411
because 101 = 10 and
1.23456– 1– 0.23045 = 0.00411

0.00411

0.00432
= 0.95 so 101.23456 = 17 + 0.95% = 17.1615

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The correct answer is 17.16169 so our answer was correct to 5 digits. Performing a
more accurate division 0.00411

0.00432
= 0.951 would have given a more accurate answer of
17.16167 .

Example #2:

We attempt to calculate 102.71828 and commence by searching for logarithms close to


0.71828 :

log 5 = 1– log 2 = 0.69897 (so 5 is too small)


log 512 = 9 ∗ log 2 = 2.70927 (so 5.12 is too small)

However 5.12 brings us about halfway from 5 to the target logarithm 0.71828 so we
should try somewhere around 5.24… we could try 5.2 or 5.25:

log 52 = log 13 + 2 ∗ log 2 = 1.11394 + 0.60206 = 1.71600

This is close enough, so we know that 102.71828 = 520 + 10


0.00228

0.00228

0.00432
= 0.53 so 102.71828 = 520 + 0.53% = 522.76

The correct answer is 522.73 so our answer is correct to 4 digits.

Summary:

This method efficiently computes antilogarithms although requires some intuition to


perform efficiently. For the reverse procedure, see the article on calculating logarithms.

When combining the algorithms for logarithms and antilogarithms we have a general-
purpose algorithm for all powers and roots.

If you have any questions or would like specialist coaching from myself, you’re welcome
to contact me here.

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