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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday May 23 2018, @07:48AM (2 children)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Wednesday May 23 2018, @07:48AM (#683001) Homepage Journal

    I used a logarithm to predict the length of the result so I could imitate the formatting he specified

    Do you mean algorithm? I'm confused.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 23 2018, @11:31AM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday May 23 2018, @11:31AM (#683053)

    Log base N is related to the number of digits required to represent a given number in base N.

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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @01:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @01:13AM (#684716)

      Don't feed the trolls