[How-to] Solve different base logs

This is going to be the first of many (hopefully) articles about how to do ALEKS and general math topics, both for you and for me, hopefully it will make me remember it longer... I'll fill these out as I come to them so if there is one you need feel free to contact me.

log₅9
This is asking for the logarithm, not going to explain what that is..., in base 5, if it is not notated with a different number it is assumed to be asking for base 10. For both base 10 and base n (where n is any number) this can be done on a calculator.

                               log₅9 =

 log₅9 = 1.365...

Also on wolframalpha you can solve this type of problem by formatting it like this:

log base 5 of 9


I hopefully will find a better way to do the fraction notation, it's either do it in pictures or x/y, neither of which look all that good.

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[How-to] ALEKS on Ubuntu

Having to do ALEKS for my classes was one of the major hindrances that was stopping me from making the full switch to the (in my opinion) far superior GNU/Linux platform. But now I have found a solution to the problem, that is much better than their "streaming" option or the instructions that they have on their website for GNU/Linux, which still refer to netscape!

1. Install (if you haven't already) the appropriate java package for you GNU/Linux distribution. In my case I believe it was just the wrapper package "default-java"
2. Download the aleksPack10.jar 
3. Copy it (with sudo or root perms) to "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/jre/lib/ext
4. Do your ALEKS!

 If this helped you and you are (understandably) mad about the ALEKS Corporation's lack of support please take the time to fill out a support ticket complaining about the lack of  GNU/Linux support that they offer you. I like to file the "technical problems" as it seems that they will get back to you sooner, even if it is only to say that it's not officially supported.



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