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 10.

The contents of the book are: (1) logs of numbers, with differences and full tables of proportional parts; (2) logarithmic sines, etc., interpolated to the second; (3) natural sines, etc ...

This article was originally published with the title “ A Natural Log: Our Innate Sense of Numbers is Logarithmic, Not Linear ” in SA Mind Vol. 19 No. 4 (August 2008), p. 13 doi:10.1038 ...

Those skyrocketing curves tell an alarming story. But logarithmic graphs can help reveal when the pandemic begins to slow. By Kenneth Chang The arc of coronavirus cases in Italy is frightening ...

A research team made up of academics from the LSE and Yale University found that logarithmic graphs used to show the curve of COVID-19 infections can confuse the public.