logarithmic
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Some samples display conventional oscillations that are periodic in 1/B. Others show oscillations that are not periodic in 1/B. Still others produce signals that seem to have logarithmic periodicity in B.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The moment magnitude scale is logarithmic — that is, each whole number of magnitude represents about a 30-fold increase in energy released.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
The scale for brightness is reverse logarithmic, which means the brighter an object is, the lower its magnitude number.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2023
But the February 6 earthquake was a 7.8—about four times bigger on the logarithmic scale of earthquake magnitudes.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2023
“If we had logarithmic tables of all the trigometric functions, you could work any problem in navigation with nothing but addition and subtraction.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Vocabulary lists containing logarithmic
Functions - High School
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AB Calculus
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BC Calculus
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