Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2010

Logarithm to any base in ruby

Ruby's Math module includes functions for a natural log (log to the base e) and the common log (log to the base 10). If you have to have a log to an arbitrary base, you have to write your own. Doing so is trivial.



I will probably explain the theory behind this another day.