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Euler came up with the log, and being Swiss, would've spoken french. In French the natural log would be le logarithme naturel, and his notation would've just caught on. I might be wrong, I've not really looked this up, just seems like a logical assumption...

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Q: Why is natural log given the initials ln instead of nl?
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