Re: Log Error ( ? )
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- Subject: [mg78922] Re: Log Error ( ? )
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:55:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
Log[] is the *natural* logarithm and Mathematica is perfectly right ..
you mean:
Plot[Log[10, x - 1] - 2, {x, 0, 101}]
Regards
Jens
Larry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a question about something I found in Mathematica 5.2... I was plotting Log[x-1]-2 with x = {0,10} and y = {-10,5} and strangely found that the graph crossed the x-axes at approximately x == 8 ...
>
> It should be 101 of course, but it seemed like 8. Then I did an Nsolve with the equation set to 0, and low and behold got an answer x == 8.38906.
>
> Is this a bug in mathematica or am I missing something here?
>