08-07-2003, 09:31 AM
Calculus and numerical skills? Bah. A computer calculates the natural logarithm, and uses identities to calculate any logarithm with it. You can find the infinite series that's used to calculate it here
I'm still dumbfounded as to how you actually calculate x^y with logarithms though, which is how i've always understood comptures calculate exponents. There was a formula in my calculus book that involves derivatives somewhere, but I no longer have that book, and it's nowhere on the internet.
I'm still dumbfounded as to how you actually calculate x^y with logarithms though, which is how i've always understood comptures calculate exponents. There was a formula in my calculus book that involves derivatives somewhere, but I no longer have that book, and it's nowhere on the internet.
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