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Coscott comments on Open thread, August 26 - September 1, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: philh 26 August 2013 09:00PM

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Comment author: Coscott 26 August 2013 09:37:44PM 14 points [-]

If you are going to memorize any logs, you should only bother memorizing logs of primes, since you can add those together to get other numbers.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 27 August 2013 08:11:56PM 9 points [-]

This took me a minute. Just to unpack for the dense ones like me:

log(a * b) = log(a) + log(b)

so if you memorize log(7) and log (11), log(77) is easy as pi.