Abstract
With the widespread use of pocket calculators, no one would use a table of logarithms to multiply or raise a number to a power. Of course, the calculator raises numbers to arbitrary powers by using logarithms internally, but why should students learn logarithms if they don't plan to design calculators? Certainly the presence of the log key on many calculators will do away entirely with the need for tables of logarithms. But when is the log key to be used?
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