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correction?

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@xxx.xxxx>

3/17/1999 8:34:18 AM

In a private mail to Paul Erlich, I wrote...

>>>I tried it for 126/125...
>>>lg(126*125) = 13.9430642 [just the fraction]
>>>lg(2) + 2lg(3) + 3lg(5) + lg(7) = 13.943063 [prime factors 126*125]
>>>2log(30) + log(35) = 14.9430642 [shortest lattice route 6/5, 6/5, 7/5]
>>>...they're all the same (I used base2 logs).
>>
>>One looks 1 bigger than the other two.
>
>Doesn't matter with octave equivalence. Or maybe you mean that the middle
one >is bigger by 0.0000001? This was caused by the where I rounded
(errors >accumulated in the middle calculation).

But on third thought, maybe it does matter... That would be a bummer :(