ln on US calculators! [RSABE / ABEL]

posted by d_labes  – Berlin, Germany, 2010-11-10 09:31 (5301 d 06:25 ago) – Posting: # 6134
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Dear Angus!

❝ On the calculators here in the US there are log and ln functions to use as appropriate.


Thanks for pointing at this. Since I do not own an US calculator I was not aware of this distinction.
My use of log() as synonym of the natural logarithm's aka ln() came from the fact that all programming languages, spreedsheets and statistical systems I came across so far (and this are more than 2 :cool:) use the function log() for that and eventually log10() for the logs to base 10.

That leads me to the opinion that english-like speaking people use log() always in that context. So I must abandon this opinion.
"Man wird alt wie eine Kuh und lernt immer noch dazu" was a slogan of my grandma (One gets old as an cow and learns still thereto) :-D.

BTW: For the Napierian logarithm you may find this interesting.

Regards,

Detlew

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