# Why the natural log?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-natural-log/399702>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-natural-log/399702 "2007-04-11T21:27:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-natural-log/399702/41 "2007-04-13T14:42:38Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]  
Flowers are aesthetically pleasing. Equations like that are simply candy for the mind. 🙂  
[/QUOTE]  
And not empty calories either, but chock full of nutritious thoughts. 😃

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-natural-log/399702/42 "2007-04-13T14:52:29Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Pleonast]  
And not empty calories either, but chock full of nutritious thoughts. 😃  
[/QUOTE]

I may be wrong, but isn’t “chock full” use of more words than necessary to get the point across? 😃

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-natural-log/399702/43 "2007-04-13T14:59:39Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Malacandra]  
I may be wrong, but isn’t “chock full” use of more words than necessary to get the point across? 😃  
[/QUOTE]  
Repetition for strong emphasis. 😉

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-natural-log/399702.md?page=2)