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While I agree that logarithms are better for expressing most physical quantities, when those values are used by humans, the "common logarithms" a.k.a. base-10 l
by adrian_b 2y ago
While I agree that logarithms are better for expressing most physical quantities, when those values are used by humans, the "common logarithms" a.k.a. base-10 logarithms, which are used at your link, are completely obsolete.
Binary logarithms are much more useful. Even when you are not using any automatic computer, but you are only doing computations in your head, binary logarithms are more convenient. Moreover, the inter-conversion between binary logarithms and decimal logarithms is very easy to do mentally, by the approximate rule that 10 units of binary logarithms match 3 units of decimal logarithms.
- saulpw 2y agoCute idea! But I hardly think base-10 logarithms are "completely" obsolete. We write numbers in base-10 and so the length of the number is its magnitude. Your statement is like saying that strlen() is obsolete and we should be using strlen2() which reports the number of bits in the string instead.