power’s out. hmmmm
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apparently won't be restored until tonight. taking this opportunity to do some math in the sun
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ran out of sun a few hours ago and couldn’t look at paper until i found a flashlight and hung it on my window
feeling very trad
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decided to do some trad math and currently attempting to check the computation of log 2 to three digits by hand
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still no power. computed log 2, log 3, and log 5 to three digits by hand. tomorrow i might learn how to churn butter idk
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got power back like 20 minutes after i tweeted but honestly i kinda wish i didn’t. it was nice having an enforced sabbath and a break from screens
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Wait, if you have no power, how are you tweeting? If you still have phone battery, can't you use your phone to calculate logarithms of small primes instead?
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yeah but that wouldn’t be any fun, the point was to see if i could do it by hand lol
and i did! and along the way i found a power series for speeding up the calculation that converges way faster than i expected to be agle to find!
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they are several pages unfortunately. the main upshot is using the taylor series of hyperbolic arctangent to speed up convergence (it's a little more than twice as fast)
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