Hey! I am currently working on a project where I have to use logarithms. I didn’t study them at school yet and would like to know how these work. Do you have any videos/documents that can explain how to use them and what they do? Thanks!
A logarithm is the inverse of a power. You’ll always find logarithms with this pattern: log(x)
.
Logarithms are essentially finding the amount of times X has been powered to by its base (aka exponent).
A logarithm has a base, this is, the base number (2^3), and X (the result from the power, in this case, 8.) The base number is written below log
, and if not declared, it’s usually the e number, or 10.
Now, we won’t go in how to calculate logarithms, but essentially:
- If 2^3 = 8, then the logarithm will be represented as
log2(8) = 3
.
In Lua, math.log
takes its base as e
, the irrational number 2.78. math.log10
is essentially a logarithm with base 10.
For example:
function a()
return math.log10(100)
end
local b = a() -- 2, as 10^2 = 100
In short, it’s the inverse of a power.
Well sorry if other programmers see this horrid explanation, I didn’t study this in English.
For sources, literally, everywhere. YouTube, Google, they all exist. You can even ask ChatGPT, that is.
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