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Summer of Math Exposition

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How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms?

In this article, I take the reader through the mathematics behind how we compute the natural logarithm for a given value. While the first method I demonstrate works, I show that with some clever manipulation, a better method exists that is actually what is used in optimized computations.



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