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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 ia Paper 4 7D iv Solution by
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If were a rational number, choose positive integers because . Exponentiation gives , but the left side is even and the right side is odd. ThusThis is the basic irrational logarithm criterion: a rational logarithm would force positive integer powers of its base and argument to coincide.
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