From: Brian Schroeder <spam0504@...>
Date: 2004-09-03T05:30:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Math.log2 ?

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:10:17 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Math.log2 ?"
>     on Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:50:19 +0900, Brian Schroeder
>     <spam0504@bssoftware.de> writes:
> 
> |I wondered, why there is no log2 function in Math. I expected Math.log =
> |log2 and
> |Math.ln = log_e.
> |
> |And spend some time searching for the bug in my algorithm that used log2.
> 
> Mostly because no one told me whether its portable among platforms. If
> enough information is provided, I'd love to add it among other math
> functions.   Besides that, you can check extmath package from RAA now.
> 
> 							matz.

That is interesting enough. Anybody here would like to explain to me, why
log_2 is harder than log_10 or ln. I just assumed that anything binary
would be nice for computers.

Thanks,

Brian

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