4 Jul
2004
4 Jul
'04
10:32 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Greg Buchholz wrote:
-- Inspired from Mr. Howard Oakley. Might not qualify as "good", -- but with this function I get log10(x)=849.114419903382 ...
For those who aren't aware: working with logs base 2 internally will be very much faster than logs base 10, since the numbers are stored internally in a base-2 representation. (Note that 'show' converts to base 10, which involves a large number of divisions in the easy algorithm.) Peace, Dylan