Instead of “Is the log” maybe you could say “Is nat-log”?
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wrig9547@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I suppose saying “natural log” invalidates the last limerick - I’ll allow it.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 5 months ago
theroastedtoaster@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or just pronounce it “lawn” like all my calculus instructors did
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That one is weird to me, but maybe just because I’ve never heard it.
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 months ago
I hear it pronounced as “lawn” all the time and it pisses me off to no end. Be thankful that you don’t hear it.
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 5 months ago
“is natty log of the cube root of e”
kogasa@programming.dev 5 months ago
It’s common to just use “log” in pure math, since nobody uses the base 10 log.
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 months ago
And everyone just uses “log” in CS because noone cares about the base.
hobovision@lemm.ee 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).