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Hello everyone !
I have recently picked up the "No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics" and something has been bothering me : the log inverse function.
It says that log a(x) is equivalent to ax, or at least I understood it that way.
So I tried to apply it in an exercise :
Solve x in the following equation log 5(x) = 2
My thinking got me to a dead end where I ended up with 5x = 25. Apparently, I was meant to put the whole log expression in the ax part, and obtain 5log 5(x) = 5² then simplify to x = 25. But why is that? I really can't wrap my head around why that happens. To me the a is 5, and the x is simply x here, which would result in 5x.
Thanks in advance, any help is welcome :)
The math is beyond my level but I need to calculate the inverse error function using the lower value of 0.07 and the higher value of 0.9. An online calculator returns that value of 1.004. I can't seem to find the function on my version of excel. Is there an add on I can install or am I missing it?
Inverse error function Calculator - High accuracy calculation (casio.com)
If someone can explain what the hell it means, in a way that I can understand, that would be great too.