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Estimating Logarithms

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While reading through the fantastic book *[The Lost Art of Logarithms](https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/)* by [Charles Petzold](https://www.charlespetzold.com/) I was nerd-sniped by a [simple method](https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/chapter04/) of estimating the logarithm of any number base 10. According to the…