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Problem 53 Hard Difficulty

Explain why 1 is not allowed as a base for a logarithmic function.

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Every power of 1 is equal to $1,$ and thus it cannot be used as a base.

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Okay, so we went to determine why log can't have a base of one. So that is why can't we have log base one of some term X? Well, let's be right. This as a exponential function. So this would be one to depart. Why is equal to X? And now let's note that one to any power, it's always one to. This means that this term here is not an exponential function. Therefore, we can't have a base of one because, um, our function here is not increasing as defined by a exponential function.

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