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by zimpenfish 841 days ago
Or you can use the `bc` that's shipped with macOS.

    echo 'l(f(52))/l(2)' | bc -l
    225.58100312370276194868
(`l(x)` is natural log, hence the `/l(2)` to convert to `log2`)

Annoyingly, GNU `bc` doesn't have `f(x)`.