On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tim Lahey <tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Aug 23, 2009, at 5:25 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > So since Tim's from Waterloo that might explain his preference for ln. > > > I preferred ln(x) well before I learned Maple. Plus, all my textbooks > used > ln(x). Good point. In fact, in retrospect my experience matches yours, since all my textbooks used ln until I was in my junior year as an undergrad engineering major. Then I switched majors from math to engineering, and started taking upper level math classes, and suddenly every textbook used "log" for "log-to-the-base-e". > As for Matlab, it might be engineering oriented, but engineers > didn't > invent it. I've rarely needed ln in Matlab, but I've used it many > times in Maple. > > I'm glad that ln will work in Sage. What does the ln = log mean for the > LaTeX code? I hope that it will output ln(x) instead of log(x). > Unfortunately it doesn't mean that. I think it just means that "ln" is a shortcut for "log", but otherwise works just like "log". -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
