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An inverse of a function is found by swapping the x and y variables. For example: the straight line function y = 2x, has an inverse of x = 2y. This can be rearranged into y = x/2.

Now take the function y = ex. The inverse is: x = ey. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to rearrange this to be y = {something}. So the logarithm function was created to handle this, and now the function {x = ey} can be written as y = ln(x).

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