Now class. Today's lesson is about logarithms.
If you know about exponentiation (powers), you already know half the story. A logarithm is just a function to get the exponent given the base and the result.
That is all. Class dismissed.
And now the teacher is gonna go hide under a rock for a while. Anyone else who thought this was university level shit is welcome to join me there if they so wish. Sheesh.
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@daygar Logarithms, exponents and all that shit goes way over my head lol, thank God I don't do anything where I need to know that stuff.
@alexchapman Do you know what powers are?
@daygar I know the basic stuff like squared is to the power of 2 and all that, but beyond that I'm just like pewp.
@alexchapman If that just confused you all the more feel free to ignore it. Can feel a bit overwhelming if you don't understand a lot about it to start with. Sorry.
@alexchapman In other words, 5 squared means your base is 5, your exponent is 2, and the result of that is 25. So if you have your result (25) and your exponent (2), you would use root to get the base (square root of 25 is 5). On the other hand, if you have your result (25) and your base (5) and you wanted the exponent, you would use a logarithm (logarithm of 25 in base 5 is 2).
@alexchapman Right. So when you say x to the power of y, x is your base and y is your exponent.
