<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 release (March 2nd, 1998) originally by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Logarithmic and Exponential Function</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Logarithmic and Exponential Function"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="vol1"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="vol1.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node142.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node140.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="node139.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node142.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html2324" HREF="node142.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="icons.gif/next_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2320" HREF="node139.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="icons.gif/up_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2314" HREF="node140.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="icons.gif/previous_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2322" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="icons.gif/contents_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2323" HREF="node216.html"> <IMG WIDTH="43" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="index" SRC="icons.gif/index_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2325" HREF="node142.html">Trigonometric Functions</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2321" HREF="node139.html">Basic Functions</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2315" HREF="node140.html">Polynomials (1D and 2D)</A> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H2><A NAME="SECTION001382000000000000000"> Logarithmic and Exponential Function</A> </H2> <BR><P></P> <DIV ALIGN="CENTER"> <!-- MATH: \begin{displaymath} \begin{array}{rcl} {\tt LOG}(x;a,b,c) &=& a \ln (b + cx) \\ {\tt EXP}(x;a,b,c) &=& a \exp (b+cx) \end{array} \end{displaymath} --> <IMG WIDTH="301" HEIGHT="64" SRC="img299.gif" ALT="\begin{displaymath}\begin{array}{rcl} {\tt LOG}(x;a,b,c) &=& a \ln (b + cx) \\ {\tt EXP}(x;a,b,c) &=& a \exp (b+cx) \end{array}\end{displaymath}"> </DIV> <BR CLEAR="ALL"> <P></P> <P> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> <I>Petra Nass</I> <BR><I>1999-06-09</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>