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 ...

By contrast, in a logarithmic plot, each tick on the y- axis represents a tenfold increase over the previous one: 1, then 10, then 100, then 1,000, then 10,000 and so on.

The point is that the two logarithmic plots look identical. The only thing that is different is what numbers are found on the associated y-axis, or the scale.

Well test analyses that include the first and second derivative of pressure plotted on a semilog scale can help detect radial flow. Plots of pressure data from short transient tests often fail to ...

Court proceedings revealed how a criminal gang in Britain was directed to target Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a dissident Russian who ...

Besides, even though Richter apparently acknowledged that "logarithmic plots are a device of the devil," they're actually widely used, as geologist Williams reminded me.

The PROC PLOT step shows two plots of the same data -- one plot without a horizontal axis specification and one plot with a logarithmic scale specified for the horizontal axis.

Due to the stochastic distribution of reads, the increase of transcript detection starts linearly (increasing slope in the logarithmic plot in Fig. 2b).