On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:48:23 +0100, Johann Wiesenbauer wrote:
>Hi Fred,
>
>Looks like
>
>APPROX(LOG(15.51499, 10), 20) = 1.1907515000009954495
>
>is the best solution to your problem for any x in [10,20]. At least that's
>what my attached DERIVE-program says.
>
>Cheers,
>Johann
Thank you. That is what I was looking for.
I see that your program did a brute force try all numbers.
Now, to see if I can come up with some faster search method.
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