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Old December 19th 03, 07:17 PM
Odysseus
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Gavin Whittaker wrote:

In uk.sci.astronomy onegod writted:
: Actually numbers are already log...
: for example...
: 100000000
: 1000000000
: 10000000000000000000
: 100000000000000000000000000

Those are not the logarithms, those are the numbers.


But the lengths of written integers, i.e. the number of digits in their
representations, do correspond roughly to their common logarithms.

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