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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 16:17:59 2021 No.13809852 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13809857 >>13810286 >>13810305

Why aren't logarithms taught sooner? Wouldn't it make more sense to teach them alongside first introducing exponents?

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 16:19:20 No.13809857 Report

Quoted By: >>13810039 >>13810176

>>13809852
i hate logarithms
every time i see one i have to think
>what is the power of the base that results in this number?
to understand them

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 18:01:03 No.13810039 Report

Quoted By: >>13810124 >>13810176

>>13809857
How about thinking of them as
>convert products to sums

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 18:35:26 No.13810124 Report

Quoted By: >>13810130

>>13810039
but arent logarithms just a fancy way of writing powers?

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 18:36:54 No.13810130 Report

Quoted By: >>13810163

>>13810124
They introduced logs in algebra 2 but I didn't really understand them until chemistry. pH is best tool for understanding logs imo.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 18:47:16 No.13810163 Report

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>>13810130
They also the Ritcher scale and also lumens for measuring light intensity

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 18:54:03 No.13810176 Report

Quoted By: >>13810189

>>13809857
>>13810039
>>13809857
>>13810039
> not thinking of log_n b = a as how many n-units of information do i need to represent a set of b elements

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:01:06 No.13810189 Report

Quoted By: >>13810240 >>13810297

>>13810176
> $\log_{2}6=3$

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:16:58 No.13810240 Report

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>>13810189
generalized of course

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:32:04 No.13810286 Report

Quoted By: >>13810316

>>13809852
I wish they were taught earlier, maybe I would've had somewhat of an intuition for them then as opposed to none at all.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:35:50 No.13810297 Report

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>>13810189
lolno, it's 2.584962501

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:37:11 No.13810305 Report

Quoted By: >>13810326

>>13809852
They serve no purpose unlike exponents

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:41:05 No.13810316 Report

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>>13810286
do you know music? octaves and pitch are all assigned by base 2 log. the pitch is the fractional part of the log, the mantissa, and the octave of the pitch you're playing is the integer part, the characteristic

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:45:41 No.13810326 Report

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>>13810305
i heard from engineers logs make some graphs really neat

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Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 19:46:46 No.13810329 Report

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yes.
the education system is retarded

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