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minus-squarewrig9547@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI suppose saying “natural log” invalidates the last limerick - I’ll allow it.
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt’s common to just use “log” in pure math, since nobody uses the base 10 log.
minus-squarehobovision@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoFair. Logs are natural unless otherwise specified. You wouldn’t put log(37) if you wanted base 10, you’d do log_10(37).
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoAnd everyone just uses “log” in CS because noone cares about the base. …if you specifically want the natural one it’s ln. ld for binary, base 10 is pretty much unheard of. Such an uneven number.
minus-squareDeconceptualist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoInstead of “Is the log” maybe you could say “Is nat-log”?
minus-squaretheroastedtoaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoOr just pronounce it “lawn” like all my calculus instructors did
minus-squareDeconceptualist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat one is weird to me, but maybe just because I’ve never heard it.
minus-squarerandint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI hear it pronounced as “lawn” all the time and it pisses me off to no end. Be thankful that you don’t hear it.
minus-squarekn0wmad1c@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago“is natty log of the cube root of e”
I suppose saying “natural log” invalidates the last limerick - I’ll allow it.
It’s common to just use “log” in pure math, since nobody uses the base 10 log.
Fair. Logs are natural unless otherwise specified. You wouldn’t put log(37) if you wanted base 10, you’d do log_10(37).
And everyone just uses “log” in CS because noone cares about the base.
…if you specifically want the natural one it’s ln. ld for binary, base 10 is pretty much unheard of. Such an uneven number.
Instead of “Is the log” maybe you could say “Is nat-log”?
Or just pronounce it “lawn” like all my calculus instructors did
That one is weird to me, but maybe just because I’ve never heard it.
I hear it pronounced as “lawn” all the time and it pisses me off to no end. Be thankful that you don’t hear it.
“is natty log of the cube root of e”