army1987 comments on The $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 29 July 2011 09:02PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 April 2013 05:12:21PM 3 points [-]

...then I get that f(x) is the harmonic series.

That's pretty much the natural logarithm of x (plus a constant, plus a term O(1/n)).

Comment author: CCC 27 April 2013 05:36:03PM 1 point [-]

Hm. Yes, to the level of approximation I'm using here, I could as easily have used a log function. And would have, if I'd thought of it; the log function is used enough that I'd expect its properties to be easier for whoever reads my post to imagine.