Why not use natural log anyway?
In Perl, the log function does return the natural log. However, it is a property of logarithms that the logarithms of the same number in a different base differ only by a constant multiplicitave constant. That is to say that loga(x) = logb(x)/logb(a). So if one person used their favorite base and you have a different favorite base, you need only scale their answer by a factor of logyours(theirs).

thor

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In reply to Re^2: Stirling Approx to N! for large Number? by thor
in thread Stirling Approx to N! for large Number? by monkfan

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