Re: RE: Log Function
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- Subject: [mg68266] Re: [mg68223] RE: [mg68176] Log Function
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:45:23 -0400 (EDT)
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Actually, if in the HelpBrowser you first select the MasterIndex tab and then type log in the input box, it will take you to the entry for Log. A good strategy (besides the recommended one of going through the beginning of The Mathematica Book) is: if you don't find something you're looking for in the (default tab) Built-in Functions, then go to the Master Index and try there. David Annetts wrote: > Hi Joe, > >> I am very new so please be gentle. I am attempting to use Mathematica >> 5.2 for the first time and I am in trouble already. I want to >> take the log of 15. I have tried log[2., 15] and I get an >> echo. I tried N[log[2.,15]] I get a buzzer. What am I doing wrong? > > Firstly, not reading the part of the getting started guide that says > "Built-in functions are capitalized.". Even searching for log in the online > help would've given you the correct answer. > > If you're very new then the best advice I can give is to work through > everything in the section of the Mathematica book entitled A practical > introduction to Mathematica before starting on your own work. Even there, > section 1.1.3 gives you the correct syntax. -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts@aapt.net.au>
- RE: Log Function