2的自然对数

ln 2（OEIS数列A002162）约为：

\ln 2\approx 0.693147

使用对数公式

\log _{b}2={\frac {\ln 2}{\ln b}}.

可以求出log2，它约为：（OEIS数列A007524）

\log _{10}2\approx 0.301029995663981195

。

数学家理查德·施罗培尔（英语：Richard Schroeppel）在1972年证明，不寻常数的自然密度等于 $\ln 2$ 。换言之，若 $u(n)$ 表示不大于 $n$ 的自然数之中，有多少个数 $a$ 具有大于 ${\sqrt {a}}$ 的质因数，则有：

\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }{\frac {u(n)}{n}}=\ln(2)=0.693147\dots \,.

公式

\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {(-1)^{n+1}}{n}}=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{(2n+1)(2n+2)}}=\ln 2.

\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(-1)^{n}}{(n+1)(n+2)}}=2\ln 2-1.

\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{n(4n^{2}-1)}}=2\ln 2-1.

\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {(-1)^{n}}{n(4n^{2}-1)}}=\ln 2-1.

\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {(-1)^{n}}{n(9n^{2}-1)}}=2\ln 2-{\frac {3}{2}}.

\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{2^{n}}}[\zeta (n)-1]=\ln 2-{\frac {1}{2}}.

\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{2n+1}}[\zeta (n)-1]=1-\gamma -{\frac {1}{2}}\ln 2.

\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{2^{2n}(2n+1)}}\zeta (2n)={\frac {1}{2}}(1-\ln 2).

\ln 2=\sum _{k\geq 1}{\frac {1}{k2^{k}}}.

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\ln 2=\sum _{k\geq 1}\left({\frac {1}{3^{k}}}+{\frac {1}{4^{k}}}\right){\frac {1}{k}}.

\ln 2={\frac {2}{3}}+\sum _{k\geq 1}\left({\frac {1}{2k}}+{\frac {1}{4k+1}}+{\frac {1}{8k+4}}+{\frac {1}{16k+12}}\right){\frac {1}{16^{k}}}.

\ln 2={\frac {2}{3}}\sum _{k\geq 0}{\frac {1}{(2k+1)9^{k}}}.

\int _{0}^{1}{\frac {dx}{1+x}}=\ln 2

\int _{1}^{\infty }{\frac {dx}{(1+x^{2})(1+x)^{2}}}={\frac {1}{4}}(1-\ln 2)

\int _{0}^{\infty }{\frac {dx}{1+e^{nx}}}={\frac {1}{n}}\ln 2;\int _{0}^{\infty }{\frac {dx}{3+e^{nx}}}={\frac {2}{3n}}\ln 2

\int _{0}^{\infty }\left({\frac {1}{e^{x}-1}}-{\frac {2}{e^{2x}-1}}\right)=\ln 2

\int _{0}^{\infty }e^{-x}{\frac {1-e^{-x}}{x}}dx=\ln 2

\int _{0}^{1}\ln {\frac {x^{2}-1}{x\ln x}}dx=-1+\ln 2+\gamma

\int _{0}^{\frac {\pi }{3}}\tan xdx=2\int _{0}^{\frac {\pi }{4}}\tan xdx=\ln 2

\int _{-{\frac {\pi }{4}}}^{\frac {\pi }{4}}\ln(\sin x+\cos x)dx=-{\frac {\pi }{4}}\ln 2

\int _{0}^{1}x^{2}\ln(1+x)dx={\frac {2}{3}}\ln 2-{\frac {5}{18}}

\int _{0}^{1}x\ln(1+x)\ln(1-x)dx={\frac {1}{4}}-\ln 2

\int _{0}^{1}x^{3}\ln(1+x)\ln(1-x)dx={\frac {13}{96}}-{\frac {2}{3}}\ln 2

\int _{0}^{1}{\frac {\ln x}{(1+x)^{2}}}dx=-\ln 2

\int _{0}^{1}{\frac {\ln(1+x)-x}{x^{2}}}dx=1-2\ln 2

\int _{0}^{1}{\frac {dx}{x(1-\ln x)(1-2\ln x)}}=\ln 2

\int _{1}^{\infty }{\frac {\ln \ln x}{x^{3}}}dx=-{\frac {1}{2}}(\gamma +\ln 2)

用皮尔斯展开式（A091846）表达ln2：

\log 2={\frac {1}{1}}-{\frac {1}{1\cdot 3}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 3\cdot 12}}-\ldots

.

\log 2={\frac {1}{2}}+{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3}}+{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3\cdot 7}}+{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3\cdot 7\cdot 9}}+\ldots

.

用余切展开式A081785表达ln2：

\log 2=\cot(\operatorname {arccot} 0-\operatorname {arccot} 1+\operatorname {arccot} 5-\operatorname {arccot} 55+\operatorname {arccot} 14187-\ldots )

.

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