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Logarithm basics

If you understand how to take an exponent and you're looking to take your mathematical game to a new level, then you've found the right tutorial. Put simply and confusingly, logarithms are inverse operators to exponents (just as subtraction to addition or division to multiplication). As you'll see, taking a logarithm of something tells you what exponent you need to raise a base to to get that number.

Logarithm properties

You want to go deeper in your understanding of logarithms. This tutorial does just that by exploring properties of logarithms that will help you manipulate them in entirely new ways (mostly falling out of exponent properties).

Natural logarithms

e is a special number that shows up throughout nature (you will appreciate this more and more as you develop your mathematical understanding). Given this, logarithms with base e have a special name--natural logarithms. In this tutorial, we will learn to evaluate and graph this special function.