- Every positive number b, can written in the exponential form as b = $a^x$
- where $a>0, \underline{a} \neq 1$, then $\underline{a}$ is called as base, \& $x$ is called as exponent, power as index
- Then the same expression can now be written as (known as logarithmic form) as
- $\log _a b=x$
- $\underline{a}^x=\underline{b} \quad \Leftrightarrow \log _a b=x \quad(a>0, a \neq 1, b>0)$
- (i.e, $4=2^2, 9=3^2$, $27=3^3$ )
- $(\log _2 4=2, log _3 9=2, \log _3 27=3 .)$
- $ .\log _a b=x \Rightarrow \cdot a^x=b \quad(7 \text {-rule })$