Why is it that tha base of a logarithm can't be 1? I can't see anything wrong with this.
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Why is it that tha base of a logarithm can't be 1? I can't see anything wrong with this.
Thank you
The basic definition of a logarithm is
If we say thatthen it follows that
. Yet the laws of exponents say that if we raise 1 to any real number we get an answer of 1.
Hint:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemesis
and
Another way of thinking about it is that "" is the inverse function to
. But if a=1,
, as e^(i*pi) pointed out. Because that function, unlike
for any other (positive) a, is not "one-to-one", it does not have an inverse.