AbstractLetY1,Y2,… be a sequence of random variables and letMnbe the floating‐point mantissa ofYn.Further let 11,x)(·) denote the indicator of the interval (1,x). IfYn/n→Za.s., whereZ≠ 0 is a further random variable, then the sequence 1(1,x)(Mn) converges a.s. to logxin the sense of