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logarithms. What is a logarithm? • To answer this, first try to answer the following: what is x in this equation? 9 = 3x. what is x in this equation? 8 = 2x. • Basically, logarithmic transformations ask, “a number, to what power equals another number?” • In particular, logs do that for specific numbers under the exponent.
See the Supplementary sheet 2 ‘Logarithmic scales and log-log graphs’ on CD-ROM if you are interested in discovering logarithms for yourself. The symbol ⇔ means that if the left-hand side is true then so. is. the right-hand side, and if the right-hand side is true then so is the left-hand side.
Logarithms. Study the statement. 100 = 102. In this statement we say that 10 is the base and 2 is the power or index. Logarithms provide an alternative way of writing a statement such as this. We rewrite it as. log10 100 = 2. This is read as ‘log to the base 10 of 100 is 2’. These alternative forms are shown in Figure 1. index or power.
After reading this text and / or viewing the video tutorial on this topic you should be able to: explain what is meant by a logarithm. state and use the laws of logarithms. solve simple equations requiring the use of logarithms.
a > 0, a 6= 1 and b > 0 we have: loga b = c , ac = b. What does it mean? First of all the assumptions (restrictions) are important. The number a, called the base of the logarithm, has to be greater than 0 and cannot be equal to 1. The number b (which we take the logarithm of) has to be greater than 0.
A logarithm represents the scale of a number. Think of all the one-digit numbers, 1 through 9. (For now we're skipping over 0.) Of course these numbers are all di erent, but they're close enough to each other to be easily comparable. However the two-digit numbers, 10 through 99, are on a totally di erent scale. They're easily comparable to each.
Precalculus Tutorials. Introduction to Logarithms. -A logarithm is the inverse function for an exponent; therefore, we will review exponential functions first. Review of Exponential Functions. -An exponential function has the general form ( ) = , where 0 < -b is called the base and x is called the exponent. < 1, or > 1.
