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LOGARITHM
Mr. McLeod
Integrated Mathematics teacher
November 2020
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
INDICES AND LOGARITHM
Logarithms are the “opposite” of exponentials , just as subtraction is the opposite of addition
and division is the opposite of multiplication. Logs “undo” exponentials. Technically speaking,
base
𝑥
𝑎 =𝑏
log 𝑎 𝑏= 𝑥