Different ways that Log appears

[grscott_2000]

Not so much a question query here but a query about how my question is written.

Im having to do some integration and my question has one part loge (log sub e). I think that this is just natural log which i usually see written as ln(x). Is this correct? However my table of integrals has e^x. Is this the same too? I seem to be getting confused by all the different ways of writting these logrithms. Can someone clarify please as to what each of these terms really means?

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[Hootenanny]

Im having to do some integration and my question has one part loge (log sub e). I think that this is just natural log which i usually see written as ln(x). Is this correct?

Correct, log_e(x) is identical to ln(x) and is given the name "natural logarithm".

However my table of integrals has e^x. Is this the same too?

However, e^x is not the same as the natural logarithm, it is in fact it's inverse. Explicitly,

\log_e\left(e^x\right) = \ln\left(e^x\right) = x

And,

e^{\ln(x)} = x

Similarly,

\log_a\left(a^x\right) = x

And,

a^{\log_a(x)} = x

I hope this helps clear things up for you.

 

[tiny-tim]

Not so much a question query here but a query about how my question is written.

Im having to do some integration and my question has one part loge (log sub e). I think that this is just natural log which i usually see written as ln(x). Is this correct?

Hi!

log_e(x) means the same as ln(x).

You would pronounce it "logarithm, base e".

I suspect that the examiner is worried that some people use "log" for natural logs (I prefer that), and some for log-base-10, so he's written "log_e(x)" to remove any doubt.

However my table of integrals has e^x. Is this the same too?

Sorry, I don't follow this part of your query.

 

[grscott_2000]

Many thanx... Thats just what I was looking for. Things should be straightforward now, well as straightforward as integration can be i suppose!

Again many thanks for the help