[PLUG] OT: Formula For Determining # Of Digits In An Integer

[Shahms King]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:31 -0800, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> Quoth Galen Seitz, on Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:05:41 -0800:
> 
> > Brute force?
> > 
> > y = floor(log10((double)x)) + 1;
> 
> The "log10" is probably what I'm looking for.  I should have noted I'm
> doing this in Java; and Java has a one-argument 'log()' method, but it's
> base "e", and it looks like I need a base-ten logorithm?

Yeah, in my mail (buried in with the rest of the stuff) is the simple
formula for computing a log in an arbitrary base:

log(n, base) -> log(n)/log(base)



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