[Haskell-cafe] Confused about logBase

[Steve Schafer]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 21:56:01 -0400, you wrote:

>Which is why CPUs have natural log as a built-in FP operation.

That's not quite true, as far as I know. The FPU log instructions (FYL2X
and FYL2XP1) use base 2, but the FPU also provides FLDLN2 and FLDLG2
constant-loading instructions to allow for easy conversion to natural
and base-10 logs, respectively.

-Steve Schafer 
 

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.