[Ihsan Kehribar] points out a clever trick you can use to quickly and efficiently compute the logarithm of a 32-bit ... remainder and a pre-computed lookup table, it is possible to get the second ...

Essentially, this was a table of logarithms to a very unusual base: 1.0001. Why such a strange base? Because it allowed interpolation to a higher accuracy than using a larger base. Red numbers are ...