Deriving natural logarithms

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From: eugene Eugene Griessel
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:33

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Is it possible, even by Newton-Raphson, to derive the natural
logarithm of a number using nothing more than addition, subtraction,
division and multiplication?  I would be keen to get an algorithm to
do this - have been trying to derive one myself but with no success.

Eugene L Griessel

   A gentleman is a man who knows how to play the saxophone and doesn't.

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