Matt wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:21:21 -0800 (PST), Andrew Usher wrote:

The very first tables of logarithms were according to the natural base
e (essentially). Base 10 was only adopted because it is somewhat more
easy for calculation with the decimal system.

That seems like a reasonable thing to do.


Now that technology was
obliviated the need to use log table for calculating,

Does that make a log10 table "evil" but a table of natural logs is
not?

Your subject line says log10 is "evil." Why is it "evil?"

Because he's gone senile. Just look at the "evil metric system" thread. :-)

Yousuf Khan