Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> And then of course, people will write "log x". Wanna take a guess which
> base that is? Now, sometimes it actually doesn't matter which base. And
> if it does, it *probably* means the natural logarithm. Probably...

IIRC, 'log x' with no base usually means base 10, and 'ln x' is the natural log.
But, as you say, depends what the local conventions are.

> Hell, I've seen formulas where pi does *not* refer to the well-known
> transcendental number!

Now that's just careless.

> Doomed, DOOMED, WE'RE ALL DOOMED! >_<

Eat more pi.

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