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minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·6 months agoIt’s common to just use “log” in pure math, since nobody uses the base 10 log.
minus-squarehobovision@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoFair. Logs are natural unless otherwise specified. You wouldn’t put log(37) if you wanted base 10, you’d do log_10(37).
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 months agoAnd everyone just uses “log” in CS because noone cares about the base. …if you specifically want the natural though it’s ln. ld for binary, base 10 is pretty much unheard of. Such an uneven number.
It’s common to just use “log” in pure math, since nobody uses the base 10 log.
Fair. Logs are natural unless otherwise specified. You wouldn’t put log(37) if you wanted base 10, you’d do log_10(37).
And everyone just uses “log” in CS because noone cares about the base.
…if you specifically want the natural though it’s ln. ld for binary, base 10 is pretty much unheard of. Such an uneven number.