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From: joshi@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Log Library - How is it done in the library code?
Summary: I would like to know how the log function is computed in c library?
Keywords: log, library, series expansion
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.022141.12068@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 02:21:41 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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I need to compute natural log for some numbers. I could use the c math.h library
routine but I do not want the accuracy of the library routine. A crude 
approximation would suffice. Does anyone know how this is done in the c library
routine? Is it possible to get the source code?
Thanks
Anil
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