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"Log" is short for "logarithm, a quantity representing the power to which a fixed number (the base) must be raised to produce a given number.

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A log of a positive number x, relative to a positive base b, is the power to which you need to raise the base to obtain the number x.

So if by = x then logbx = y.

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