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Author	steve21
Recipients	steve21
Date	2009-08-23.11:56:15
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$ python3.1 Python 3.1 (r31:73572, Jul 6 2009, 21:21:12) [GCC 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import math >>> math.log10(1000) 3.0 >>> math.log(1000, 10) 2.9999999999999996 You would expect the results to be the same. Internally math.log() could call math.log10() when base==10. That would ensure they are consistent.

$ python3.1
Python 3.1 (r31:73572, Jul  6 2009, 21:21:12) 
[GCC 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import math
>>> math.log10(1000)
3.0
>>> math.log(1000, 10)
2.9999999999999996

You would expect the results to be the same.
Internally math.log() could call math.log10() when base==10. That would
ensure they are consistent.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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