MrSoftware
- Joined Oct 29, 2013
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I just realized, I think the original poster may have been asking more about log base 10, as opposed to numbering system base-10. Two very different meanings of the same word "base". Maybe I'm late to the party in figuring out that this is really what he was asking.
So the question re-worded (I think); why is log base 10 the common log, as opposed to some other log base. Does log base 10 happen to represent things in nature?
I think these two articles speak about why log base-10 is used often, and I found it really interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_logarithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm
Equally fascinating is the "natural log":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm
So the question re-worded (I think); why is log base 10 the common log, as opposed to some other log base. Does log base 10 happen to represent things in nature?
I think these two articles speak about why log base-10 is used often, and I found it really interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_logarithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm
Equally fascinating is the "natural log":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm