I know at at one point in time i am going to have to deal with logarithms and i think it's going to be semester after next so i wanted to see if i could get some help with them. Just the basic concepts.

A logarithm is the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number.

x = ay --> Log(a)x = Log(a)ay -->
Log(a)x = y

8 = 23 --> Log(2)8 = Log(2)23 -->
Log(2)8 = 3

So when it is said the exponent of the power are we talking about the exponent of x = ay?