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Re:Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast by ppod on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:14AM (#23029994)
>going from the number itself to the number of digits (i.e. taking its logarithm)

Why did nobody ever tell me to think of logs like this before!!?

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Re:Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast by tonyarkles on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:46AM (#23031346)
Another fun property of this is that you can use it across bases. For example, how many bits would I need to represent 34812923 in binary? log2(34812923) = 25.05 -> round up to 26 bits.
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Re:Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast by SummerlyMars on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:38PM (#23032854)
Thank you for posting this. The significance of this statement was lost on me until you pointed it out. Going by MathOverflow, it's slightly more complicated than that, but it's pretty close.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1384917/relation-be...

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