It is typically used when numbers are too large or too small to handle easily, as often happens in astronomy or integrated circuits. Once compressed, a number can be converted back to its original form using an inverse operator known as “antilog.”
How do you use antilog?
Antilog is the shorter version of Anti-Logarithms. When you find the logarithm of a number, you follow a process, the inverse process is used to find the antilog of a number. Let's say a is the log of number b with base x. Then we can say that b is antilog of a.
What does it mean to take antilog?
An antilog is the result of raising the base being used to the logarithm given or calculated. Put another way, it "undoes" what calculating the logarithm of a number does and simply returns that number. ... "Antilog" can also be written logb-1 or just log-1 where base 10 is implied by default.
