Talk:Binary logarithm

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Where did the algorithm given here come from? I would love to find an original reference for this. Kleg 22:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Same here. I can sort of guess why it works (squaring the scaled input value corresponds to doubling the result), but I would love to see the actual maths behind it.

Math for the result is located at this url: http://en.literateprograms.org/Logarithm_Function_%28Python%29

2ⁿ not a function! A function has a domain, a range, and a graph!