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travisjungroth
on Sept 3, 2023
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An intuition for logarithms
That square root estimation is new to me and freaky accurate. The error bounces and is generally decreasing. It's also always an underestimate. Here are the first six local maxima of errors.
2: 0.0809 6: 0.0495 12: 0.0355 20: 0.0277 30: 0.0227 42: 0.0192
And there's an obvious pattern there. Interesting stuff.
nimish
on Sept 3, 2023
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It comes from the first two terms of Newtons's expansion of (1+x)^(1/2) the generalized binomial series.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_series
travisjungroth
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Thanks!
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