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From: marek@ifi.uio.no (Marek Vokac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Accuracy w/ ln and log
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Date: 3 Jun 91 09:36:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jhawk@panix.uucp (John Hawkinson)'s message of 30 May 91
        12: 06:58 GMT
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Re John Hawkinson's question about n-base logarithms on the '48 -

I compared the results from LOG/LOG and LN/LN calculations with those
produced by Mathematica, and it seems LN is _marginally_ more
accurate, the results differed +/- 1 in the last decimal digit
calculated.

The difference is small enough to be insignificant in most
applications; but it does seem to indicate the LN is used for LOG and
not the other way round.

Marek