Re: Is there a way to change bases on 86?


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Re: Is there a way to change bases on 86?



>    I know that the 86 assumes base 10 when doing logarithms...is there a
> way to change which base you can use (without doing the conversion method
> doing division that I used to know...)?

Why would you want some other way? If you set 1/log(b) --> k  then
the base-b log of x is just  k*log(x) .

The only simpler, shorter way (it seems to me) would be on a TI-89 or TI-92
where you could define your own function....

RWW Taylor
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester NY 14623

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