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Computes logarithms for any base. logₐ(x) asks: "to what power must a be raised to produce x?" It is the inverse of exponentiation.
Before calculators, logarithm tables (published 1614 by John Napier) allowed astronomers to multiply large numbers by looking up and adding logarithms — transforming multiplication into addition.
log(a×b) = log(a) + log(b) — NOT log(a) × log(b). Logarithm converts multiplication into addition, not into another multiplication.