Here’s what the popularity graph of the male name “Bruce” looks like over time, if your y-axis corresponds to the name’s rank on a list of popular names (data via SSA, graph via WolframAlpha): ...

The distance between 1 and 10 on the Y axis is the same as the distance between 10 and 100, but the range of numbers covered in the second interval is much greater. This means that the columns are ...