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Evaluate the logarithmic expresión log5 100

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Rewrite the logarithmic expresión log5 (100) using the change of base formula, which gets you:
log(100)/log(5)

Logarithm base 10 of 100 is 2.
2/log(5)

The result can be shown in both exact and decimal forms.
Exact Form:
2/log(5)
Decimal Form:
2.86135311...

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