Big-Data-HPC-Platform/docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-LOG.xml

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<sect1 id="LOG">
  <title>LOG</title>

  <para><emphasis role="bold">LOG<indexterm>
      <primary>LOG</primary>
    </indexterm><indexterm>
      <primary>LOG function</primary>
    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>n</emphasis><emphasis
  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>

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    <tgroup cols="2">
      <colspec colwidth="79.50pt" />

      <colspec colwidth="309.30pt" />

      <tbody>
        <row>
          <entry>n</entry>

          <entry>The real number to evaluate.</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Return:</entry>

          <entry>LOG returns a single real value.</entry>
        </row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>

  <para>The <emphasis role="bold">LOG </emphasis>function returns the base-10
  logarithm of the parameter.</para>

  <para>Example:</para>

  <programlisting>MyLogPI := LOG(3.14159); //0.49715</programlisting>

  <para>See Also: <link linkend="EXP">EXP</link>, <link linkend="SQRT">SQRT</link>, <link linkend="POWER">POWER</link>, <link linkend="LN">LN</link></para>
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