Nice walkthrough of logarithms applied to compund interest. The time-to-amount formula is especially useful since most folks encounter the problem in reverse order compared to how its typically taught. I've used similar logic when modeling bacterial growth, and the ratio principle you mentioned holds nicely since base choice cancels out eitherway.
Thank you. I'm pleased you found it interesting. I think maybe I didn't emphasise enough how widely applicable this is in other fields. I might write a followup with various other examples.
I wrote another article a while ago on a related topic: Exploring Radioactive Decay Half-Lives with Python
Nice walkthrough of logarithms applied to compund interest. The time-to-amount formula is especially useful since most folks encounter the problem in reverse order compared to how its typically taught. I've used similar logic when modeling bacterial growth, and the ratio principle you mentioned holds nicely since base choice cancels out eitherway.
Thank you. I'm pleased you found it interesting. I think maybe I didn't emphasise enough how widely applicable this is in other fields. I might write a followup with various other examples.
I wrote another article a while ago on a related topic: Exploring Radioactive Decay Half-Lives with Python
https://codedrome.substack.com/p/radioactive-decay-half-life-python