On Jun 24, 2:58 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <m...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: > "Steven D'Aprano" <ste...@remove.this.c...com.au> wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:43:19 -0500, David C. Ullrich wrote: > > >> In my universe the standard definition of "log" is different froim what > >> log means in a calculus class > > >Now I'm curious what the difference is. > > Maybe he is a lumberjack, and quite all right... > > - Hendrik
Or perhaps he works in a sewage facility. But yeah, Log2 and LogE are the only two bases that make "natural" sense except in specialized contexts. Base 10 (and, therefore, Log10) is an artifact of having that 10 fingers (in fact, whatever base you use, you always refer to it as base 10). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
