peterrowlett,
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My son: “I’ve spotted a little typo in Kyle’s book. He says natural logarithm, or L N for short, not N L.”

vacapinta,
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@peterrowlett never thought about this until this post. I suppose from logarithmus naturalis but I can't find a reliable source.

peterrowlett,
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@vacapinta yes, this is what I told him, but I haven’t investigated properly.

11011110,
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@peterrowlett @vacapinta Earliest I can find is an 1813 book by Mauricius de Prasse who uses both l.n. and logarithmus naturalis on the same page: https://books.google.com/books?id=DR1fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA243 (elsewhere he also uses L.nat. and Log.nat.)

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