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  2. Natural logarithm - Wikipedia

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    For example, ln 7.5 is 2.0149..., because e 2.0149... = 7.5. The natural logarithm of e itself, ln e, is 1, because e 1 = e, while the natural logarithm of 1 is 0, since e 0 = 1. The natural logarithm can be defined for any positive real number a as the area under the curve y = 1/x from 1 to a [4] (with the area being negative when 0 < a < 1 ...

  3. Logarithmic integral function - Wikipedia

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    The asymptotic behavior for x → ∞ is ⁡ = (⁡). where is the big O notation.The full asymptotic expansion is ⁡ ⁡ =! (⁡)or ⁡ / ⁡ + ⁡ + (⁡) + (⁡) +. This gives the following more accurate asymptotic behaviour:

  4. Proof by infinite descent - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a proof by infinite descent, also known as Fermat's method of descent, is a particular kind of proof by contradiction [1] used to show that a statement cannot possibly hold for any number, by showing that if the statement were to hold for a number, then the same would be true for a smaller number, leading to an infinite descent and ultimately a contradiction. [2]

  5. Logarithmic decrement - Wikipedia

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    The logarithmic decrement can be obtained e.g. as ln(x 1 /x 3).Logarithmic decrement, , is used to find the damping ratio of an underdamped system in the time domain.. The method of logarithmic decrement becomes less and less precise as the damping ratio increases past about 0.5; it does not apply at all for a damping ratio greater than 1.0 because the system is overdamped.

  6. Polylogarithm - Wikipedia

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    The integrand has a cut along the real axis from zero to infinity, with the axis belonging to the lower half plane of t. The integration starts at +∞ on the upper half plane (Im( t ) > 0), circles the origin without enclosing any of the poles t = μ + 2 kπi , and terminates at +∞ on the lower half plane (Im( t ) < 0).

  7. Feynman parametrization - Wikipedia

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    An alternative form of the parametrization that is sometimes useful is = [+]. This form can be derived using the change of variables = / ().We can use the product rule to show that = / (), then

  8. Chebyshev function - Wikipedia

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    The second Chebyshev function can be seen to be related to the first by writing it as = ⁡where k is the unique integer such that p k ≤ x and x < p k + 1.The values of k are given in OEIS: A206722.

  9. Euler's constant - Wikipedia

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    The area of the blue region converges to Euler's constant. Euler's constant (sometimes called the Euler–Mascheroni constant) is a mathematical constant, usually denoted by the lowercase Greek letter gamma (γ), defined as the limiting difference between the harmonic series and the natural logarithm, denoted here by log: