Understand Explain API scoring

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I'm trying to understand the Explain API scoring in the elastic documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html

When I couldn't figure it out on my own simple index with just a couple documents, I tried to reproduce the calculation on the above documentation page.

In the example, it shows a "value" of 1.3862944 with the description: "idf, computed as log(1 + (docCount - docFreq + 0.5) / (docFreq + 0.5))". Under "details" it gives the following values for the fields: docFreq: 1.0, docCount: 5.0

Using the provided docFreq and docCount values, I compute this to be: log(1 + (5.0 - 1.0 + 0.5) / (1.0 + 0.5)) = 0.602 which is not the same as the 1.3862944 in the example.

I can't get any of the values to match up.

Am I reading it incorrectly?

Thanks!

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From StackOverflow: the answer is that the logarithm calculation is the natural logarithm and not the base 10 logarithm.

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