For any base , we have . Why? Because .
This means , , and . You raise the base to the power to get itself back.
These two special cases ( and ) anchor your intuition. Between and , logarithms grow from to .
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For any base , we have . Why? Because .
This means , , and . You raise the base to the power to get itself back.
These two special cases ( and ) anchor your intuition. Between and , logarithms grow from to .