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Old 10-28-2012, 01:45 AM   #1
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Is there a function that can do...

Say I have a decimal 256. I need to find 2^x = 256, in which case x will equal 8. Is there a function to calculate x?

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Old 10-28-2012, 02:33 AM   #2
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Have you tried log2? Anyway, what language are we talking about? Do you want the argument and return value to be int or float?
 
Old 10-28-2012, 02:42 AM   #3
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log2 worked great thanks.

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