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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's common to just use "log" in pure math, since nobody uses the base 10 log.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And everyone just uses "log" in CS because noone cares about the base.

...if you specifically want the natural though it's ln. ld for binary, base 10 is pretty much unheard of. Such an uneven number.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Fair. Logs are natural unless otherwise specified. You wouldn't put log(37) if you wanted base 10, you'd do log_10(37).