Bill Joy used to say that the number of bright employees in a company was the log of the number of employees. He would then explain that he had not expressed th

Bill Joy used to say that the number of bright employees in a company was the log of the number of employees. He would then explain that he had not expressed the base, which could be different on a company by company basis. Though he never expressed the result for the self-employed, log(1) = 0 in any base.