[seqfan] What is the base 36 log of 10077696?

Alonso Del Arte alonso.delarte at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 01:01:32 CEST 2011


What is the base 36 log of 10077696?

Mathematica says (ln 10077696) / (ln 36), which numerically evaluates
to 4.5, which then led me to try 36^(9 / 2), which indeed evaluates to
10077696. In the much smaller example log_4 8, Mathematica unhesitantly says
3 / 2. I'm wondering if there is some subtlety I have missed, or if maybe
machine precision makes some kind of difference here.

Al



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