From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-02-08T08:07:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding Math.log2 and Math.logn to the core library.

On 2/8/07, Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Phrogz wrote:
>
> > Ideally they'd be implemented in C, but of course the simple Ruby
> > implementation is just:
> >   def Math.log2( x ); Math.log( x ) / Math.log( 2 ); end
> >   def Math.logn( x, n ); Math.log( x ) / Math.log( n ); end
>
> I second the motion.
>
> The log2 function is now in the C math library, so I think it would
> easy to add it the Ruby Math library. I would like see log for

And while we're at it, I'd really like to see log aliased to ln

martin