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
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