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Overall, logarithms provide a powerful toolset for dealing with exponential relationships, making computations more manageable, and offering insights into various phenomena across different …

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Sal explains what logarithms are and gives a few examples of finding logarithms.

So this is a logarithm property. If I'm taking the logarithm of a given base of something to a power, I could take that power out front and multiply that times the log of the base, of just the y in this …

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In a base ten logarithmic scale, 2 cm on the scale corresponds to 10² (100). 3 cm corresponds to 10³ (1000). Obviously, if we change the base of the logarithm, the spacing between each …

Think of it this way -- logarithms are just another way of looking at things. You know that 2^3 is 8, but if you didn't know what power to raise it to, you'd say 2^x is 8.

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