SOLUTION: Please help I am stuck on this one, Most calculators have 2 different logs on them: log, which is base 10, and ln, which is base e. In computer science, digital computers are ba

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Question 38155: Please help I am stuck on this one,
Most calculators have 2 different logs on them: log, which is base 10, and ln, which is base e. In computer science, digital computers are based on the binary numbering system which means that there are only 2 numbers available to the computer, 0 and 1. When a computer scientist needs a logarithm, he needs a log to base 2 which is not on any calculator. To find the log of a number to any base, we can use a conversion formula as shown here:
log ^ (b)a =log a/log b

Using this formula, find log ^ (2) 1000 .

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