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\name{Log}\title{Logarithms and Exponentials}\usage{log(x)log10(x)log2(x)exp(x)}\alias{log}\alias{log10}\alias{log2}\alias{exp}\description{\code{log} computes natural logarithms,\code{log10} computes common logarithms\code{log2} computes binary (i.e. base 2) logarithmsand\code{exp} computes the exponential function.Each of these functions takes a single numeric or complexvector as argument and returns a vector of the samelength containing the transformed values.}\seealso{\code{\link{Trig}}, \code{\link{Math}}, \code{\link{Arithmetic}}.}\examples{log10(10^7) == 10^log10(7)log2(2^pi) == 2^log2(pi)Mod(pi - log(exp(pi*1i)) / 1i) < .Machine$double.epsMod(1+exp(pi*1i)) < .Machine$double.eps}