BGB / cr88192 wrote:

Using base 10 logs is another example (along with the metric system)
of ignorant decimal-philia.


we all know log2 is the one true logarithm...

down with decimal, in the future all math will be done in hexadecimal, and
we will not teach school-children this crufty old-style arithmetic, but to
it all the natural way, with bitwise operations and shifts...

OK, you're right. We need log2 in computing. 2 is the only base other
than e that should be allowed to survive.

Andrew Usher