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Old August 14th 15, 02:16 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Eotvos, not Newton

On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 1:52:25 PM UTC-6, Lord Vath wrote:

You know that the logarithm of e equals e. (The natural log, not base
ten.)


No, I don't know that. ln(e) equals 1. Just as the base-10 log of 10 equals 1.

However, e *is* a special number, or we wouldn't have natural logs.

John Savard