Strategies for debugging

Print out intermediate information

Explain your code to someone else

Explain the code to rubber ducky

Comment your code

Name variables descriptively

Test early - try to break, and see if you can find inputs for which the program takes a long time

Separate your program into various functions that do specific things, and can be tested separately

First solve an easier case

N(log(26^12,2))

56.4052766176931

N(log(2^56,10))

16.8576797571829