"What's $n$ exactly?"

https://arbital.com/p/41z

by Alexei Andreev Jun 7 2016


We now begin to see what the fractional answer that comes out of a logarithm actually means \(and why it is 316, not 500, which is the closest whole number to being 2\.5 digits long\)\. The logarithm base 10 of is not answering "how many 10\-digits does it take to store ," it's answering "how many \-digits does it take to store , where all but one of those digits is a 10\-digit; and how big does the final digit have to be?"

What's exactly?