I am just trying to understand what goes on in the process of finding the
natural log of a number by rewriting a small proram myself
Victor M.Zammit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Williams" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: st: re:locating the natural log of a number
> At 05:24 PM 3/31/2007, Victor M. Zammit wrote:
> >Dear Statalist,
> >
> >I am trying to write a program to locate the natural log of any number
> >between 1 and 22026.
> >
> >In this specific case I am trying the number 22000 but I am having
trouble
> >with the error
> >
> >sign "obs. out of range" as I try to get to the exact natural log of the
> >number in question.
> >
> >Can any one give me any suggestions as to how to handle the problem.
>
> I don't understand why you are not just using the ln function, e.g.
>
> . display ln(22000)
> 9.9987977
>
>
> Having said that, your code ran fine for me. The last few lines of output
were
>
> . di `h'
> 9.9034901
>
> .
> . di 2.718281828^`h'
> 20000.05
>
>
>
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