Pierre-Simon Laplace called logarithms "...n admirable artifice which, by reducing to a few days the labour of many months, doubles the life of the astronomer, and spares him the errors and disgust inseparable from long calculations."
Pierre-Simon Laplace chamou aos logaritmos: ... unha admirábel ferramenta que, ao reducir a uns poucos días o labor de moitos meses, dobra a vida do astrónomo e líbrao dos erros e frustracións inseparábeis dos cálculos longos.