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martin293
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> antilog
So exp? e to the power of x?
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anamexis
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Yes. I think antilog name used to be more common in engineering, and commonly referred to 10^x rather than e^x. Some calculators even had a log^-1 button.
eesmith
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Neat Google Ngram for it at
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=antilog&year_s...
showing a peak for "antilog" in 1976, decreasing now to prewar usage of 25% that of peak.
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