Now that you know what \({\log _a}x\) means, you should know and be able to use the following results, known as the laws of logarithms.

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IN the preface Prof. Peirce writes:—“Logarithms ought not to be comprised, as they often are, in the midst of a treatise on algebra. For, in the first place, they are not algebraic functions; and, ...