What's the anti-derivative of 10/x? :)

ProviaFan

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Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Originally posted by: mwtgg
10logx + C
Isn't it 10lnx + c?
Oops, my bad :)
You could be right, depending on who's opinion you ask... It is very confusing to me, as a freshman in college, which classes / disciplines want log to be log base 10, and which want log to be log base e. So, after all, log x might really mean ln x, depending on who you ask.

And by the way, isn't the antiderivative of 1/x defined in the most general sense to be ln(abs(x))?
 

Howard

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Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Originally posted by: mwtgg
10logx + C
Isn't it 10lnx + c?
Oops, my bad :)
You could be right, depending on who's opinion you ask... It is very confusing to me, as a freshman in college, which classes / disciplines want log to be log base 10, and which want log to be log base e. So, after all, log x might really mean ln x, depending on who you ask.

And by the way, isn't the antiderivative of 1/x defined in the most general sense to be ln(abs(x))?
Yep.
 

iwantanewcomputer

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wow, it took like 20 posts to get it right...i'm pretty sure this is the easiest thing there is calculus...you are all going to fail