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DAY 008: LOG
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"LOG()" distinctly proved my ignorance while learning programming languages other than BASIC. To my surprise, it should have been called "LN()" because "LOG()" in BASIC only does natural log, not common log. It makes perfect sense to other people that a function called "LOG()" should return base-10 log. It would have been interesting to know who was the one responsible for this function-naming mess. I don't think this function began at Dartmouth.

I know even less than bplus about this! I wasn't even patient enough to come up with that essence of the exponential curve in 512 points that I featured in one of the programs posted in this forum. It took me at least one hour to get it right in Lua.
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DAY 008: LOG - by SMcNeill - 11-13-2022, 11:17 AM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by bplus - 11-13-2022, 03:24 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by SMcNeill - 11-13-2022, 05:46 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by mnrvovrfc - 11-13-2022, 05:17 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by Pete - 11-13-2022, 05:55 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by TerryRitchie - 11-13-2022, 07:40 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by Pete - 11-13-2022, 08:12 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by bplus - 11-13-2022, 08:25 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by Pete - 11-13-2022, 08:29 PM
RE: DAY 008: LOG - by luke - 11-19-2022, 06:36 AM



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