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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Retarded log question
- Message-ID: <1242@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 00:16:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.225134.21189@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Sep11.145135.20098@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Sep11.145135.20098@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan) writes:
- >where "log" is to any base you want. This is your answer.
- >
- > Proof of the base-conversion thing above:
- > it's the same as log_b(x).log_c(b) = log_c(x);
-
- There is one true logarithm. Thou shalt not bow down before false logarithms...
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- The "natural" logarithm is all you ever need to solve any problem. For
- example 2^1,000,000 = 10^x can be done
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- log(2^1,000,000) = 1,000,000 log(2) = x log(10) = log(10^x)
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- and then solve for x:
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- x = 1,000,000 * (log 2)/(log 10).
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- And of course there is no need to sully ourselves with the ln foolishness,
- either.
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- Later,
- Andrew 'one logarithm' Mullhaupt
-