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From: mathrich@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How to calculate LOG10 in BASIC?
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.222850.28424@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 90 22:28:50 GMT
References: <7196.267754e0@eva.slu.se>
Organization: U of Miami Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, Coral Gables, FL 33124
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In <7196.267754e0@eva.slu.se> jn@eva.slu.se (Jan Nilsson) writes:
>Hello programmers!
>Sorry to disturb You with a (I don't know if I dare say it..) BASIC
>question. I want to calculate the common logarithm (LOG10) and BASIC 
>only support LOG, the natural logarithm. Could it be calculated in 
>another way?

Divide by the natural log of 10 (2.30258) to get the common log.

Rich