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Catron | 20:15 Fri 11th Jul 2008 | Science
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Can somebody tell me please why the 'Natural Log' button on my calculator is marked LN and not NL? Is it perhaps French as in 'Logarithm Naturelle' or somesuch?
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Actually its latin "logarithmus naturalis", as the early mathematcians (Mercator, Newton etc) wrote their manuscripts in latin.
21:50 Fri 11th Jul 2008
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Ah yes, should have thought that it might be Latin - obviously I am not a 'proper' mathematician yet! Thank you very much, sddsddean.
22:09 Fri 11th Jul 2008

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