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Explaining B-Trees: animated video

This video is not owned by me, I just screen casted it and put into video so you can do track by time compared to their flash base which is annoying when you wanted to back track. This video is taken from  http://www.csanimated.com/animation.php?t=B-tree

Using your calculator to validate logarithms with exponents and get result of logarithms

I just stumbled this earlier when I was playing with my calculator and I forgot how to use it, so I remember that logarithms is just a way of a reverse formula of exponents. So I came up with this solution, log 2 (8) = 3 in calculator, press 8 + press x radical symbol(y) + press 3 = 2 log 2 (3) = 1.58496250072116 in calculator press 3 + press x radical symbol(y) + 1.58496250072116 = 2 log 4 (16) = 4294967296 in calculator press 4294967296 + press x radical symbol(y) + 16 = 4 So the formula is, log base (logarithm number) = result or result as the index then radical symbol(logarithm number as the radicand) = base then, base result = logarithm number Now to get the result of a logarithm in calculator, you can use natural logarithm. To calculate it, do, ex. ln(16)/ln(2) = 4 which is equivalent to, log 2 (16) = 4 another ex. ln(65536)/ln(4) = 7.99 = 8 which is equivalent to log 4 (65536) = 8