This post offers reasons for using logarithmic scales, also called log scales, on charts and graphs. It explains when logarithmic graphs with base 2 are preferred to logarithmic graphs with base ...

Since it is percentage gains which investors use to gauge performance, the latter scale should be used in many cases. Consider the two charts below which show the price of Apple Inc (AAPL), one of ...

The Richter scale, developed by the American geologist Charles Richter in the 1930s, is a "logarithmic" scale, which means that each one-point increase on the scale represents a tenfold increase ...

THE suggestion recently put forward 1 that a logarithmic scale should be used for high-vacuum measurements directs attention to the fact that, while increasing use is being made of logarithmic ...

While it may seem like splitting hairs, the scale used to estimate earthquake magnitude is a logarithmic scale, and small increments matter more than you think.

Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most ...

The logarithmic scale is not compatible with this sort of intuitive simplicity. Unfortunately, a linear scale isn’t a perfect alternative, either.

The universe is enormous — so vast that it's almost impossible to picture what it might look like in one image. But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps ...