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Chapter 1: Logarithms Used to Calculate Products ..... 1 Chapter 2: The Inverse Log Rules ..... 9 Chapter 3: Logarithms Used to Calculate Quotients ..... 20
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•explain what is meant by a logarithm •state and use the laws of logarithms •solve simple equations requiring the use of logarithms. Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Why do we study logarithms ? 2 3. What is a logarithm ? if x = an then log a x = n 3 4. Exercises 4 5. The first law of logarithms log a xy = log a x+log a y 4 6. The second ...
De nition. a > 0, a 6= 1 and b > 0 we have: loga b = c , ac = b. Secondly loga b = c means a raised to the power of c is equal to b. So if we want to calculate loga b, we need to nd a number to which we need to raise a to to get b. We will practice the above de nition in this presentation. Calculate log1 81. 3.
Logarithms. If a > 1 or 0 < a < 1, then the exponential function f : R ! (0, defined 1) as f (x) = ax is one-to-one and onto. That means it has an inverse function. If either a > 1 or 0 < a < 1, then the inverse of the function ax is. loga : (0, 1) ! and it’s called a logarithm of base a. That ax and loga(x) are inverse functions means that ...
logarithm of a number, all you have to do is count its digits. For example the number 83,176,000 has eight digits, and therefore its log must be between 7 and 8. And since it’s a large eight-digit number, the log is closer to 8 than 7. (In fact, the log of this number is approximately 7.92.) Here’s the graph of positive base-10 logarithms ...
Logarithms. If a > 1 or 0 < a < 1, then the exponential function f : R ! (0; 1) de ned as f (x) = ax is one-to-one and onto. That means it has an inverse function. If either a > 1 or 0 < a < 1, then the inverse of the function ax is. log : (0; 1) ! R a. and it's called a logarithm of base a.
