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Re: Lower Floor

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  • Subject: [mg39046] Re: [mg39004] Lower Floor
  • From: Jan Mangaldan <hokenjan at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:22:33 -0500 (EST)
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Guess that means N[Log[8]/Log[2]] goes something like 2.9...(rest of the digits), in which case Floor[N[Log[8]/Log[2]]] is equal to 2 (check Floor[]'s definition).
Have you tried Floor[N[Log[8]/Log[2], 20]]?
                                                                                                      Jan M. (^_^)
 André Giroux <giroux at dms.umontreal.ca> wrote:Hi All.
With Mathematica 4.1 on Windows98:
N[Log[8]/Log[2]]
3.
Floor[N[Log[8]/Log[2]]]
2
Beware!



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