Comment by pipes

Coincidentally I watched this last night https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWKSMtKCmU

It gives the history / motivation behind logarithms and suddenly it became so much clearer to me. Pretty much multipling huge numbers by adding exponents , well I think I've understood that correctly?

I think why I'm so interested in programming and computing is because I fascinated by the history of it all. It somehow acts as a motivation to understand it.