Calculate exp() and log() Without Multiplications

This page describes a couple of algorithms for computing the elementary mathematical functions log(x) (logarithm to the base e) and exp(x) (e to the power x). The algorithms avoid multiplication and division operations, and are thus suitable for implementation in software on processors that lack such instructions (or where the instructions are slow) or in hardware on a programmable logic device or

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