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 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
It is a logarithmic scale: For each whole-number it rises, the amount of energy released by an earthquake increases by about 32 times.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
Like the Richter scale, the proposed index would be logarithmic, so what follows is a little detour to review for the innumerate those dreaded monsters from high school algebra: logarithms.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing logarithmic
Functions - High School
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