Imagine you are living a lot of years ago, without calculators, slide rules, tables of logarithms, or any kind of tool but paper and pencil... how would you go about calculating log₁₀ of 2 -- or of any other number?

By the way, if your solution required calculating powers, or if you just wanted to check your solution, how would you calculate 10 to the 0.30103... power, or any other?

I really have forgotten all about logs (i think) but is the answer .3333 (1/3) ?

Posted by jason on 2004-07-31 22:25:36