Invisible wrote:

> When the lecturer wrote the formula on the whiteboard, everybody freaks 
> out and starts going "what the hell does 'log' mean?" And the lecturer 
> is all "oh, I'm sorry, I just *assumed* that 3rd year degree students 
> would know what a logarithm is". It turns out that actually, only two 
> people in the room knew about logarithms.

log is kind of a neat function.

One cool trick is ln(x)/ln(n) will compute the base n log of x. Then you 
can use it to solve x in 2^x = 128 ;)

Its sort of the inverse of exponentiation.


Anyway .... you have all this CS background and are not a programmer... 
get out there and get a programming job already! :)

My last job had me using a ton of trig, vector and matrix arithmetic. 
This one, not so much, I'm basically basically n-tier hell. But, it pays 
the bills.

-- 
~Mike

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