Logarithm Notation

In math, we write a logarithm as the abreviation “” followed by the subscript , representing the base, and the expression that we are taking the logarithm of. Typically, a logarithm appears in text like this:

In plain language, this means “take the logarithm base of ”. Often you’ll see numbers instead of variables. For example, this is how we write the logarithm with some concrete numbers.

To calculate the logarithm of an expression see this page.

Related Notation

Exponent

In mathematics superscript text is used to indicate the exponent of some number.

Radical

In math, we use the √ symbol to represent the square root and the n-th root of an expression.