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Chapter 10 - Exploring Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
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Napier Links
- Napier - Biography at the web site of Trinity College at Dublin, Ireland.
- Napier's Book - Logarithms in Napier's own words! The web site where Napier's work is posted is by the
Science Faculty, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Napier's book was originally published in Latin, this English translation
is by Edward Wright.
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Curve Fitting Links
- CurveFit.com - This site
has a lot more information about curve fitting than we are ready to deal with in this course
but reading the introductory sections should give you a better idea of the concepts involved. The
measures of how well your curve fits the data ("R" and "R2") are defined. The site is
by Graphpad Software Inc. When you did the 10-1B calculatior exercise you were actually doing
"nonlinear" curve fitting. Below are some specific sections you should read:
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e - 2.718281828
A good starting point for finding out everrything you want to know about e is the
Math Forum's "Ask Dr. Math" FAQ page about "e" -- Click here.
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