Logarithmic scale
A logarithmic scale or log scale is the way of displaying numerical data over a very wide range of values in a compact way—typically the largest numbers in the data are hundreds or even thousands of times larger than the smallest numbers. such(a) a scale is nonlinear: the numbers 10 together with 20, as living as 60 and 70, are not the same distance apart on a log scale. Rather, the numbers 10 and 100, and 60 and 600 are equally spaced. Thus moving a member of distance along the scale means the number has been multiplied by 10 or some other fixed factor. Often exponential growth curves are displayed on a log scale, otherwise they would increase too quickly to fit within a small graph. Another way to think about it is that the number of digits of the data grows at a constant rate. For example, the numbers 10, 100, 1000, and 10000 are equally spaced on a log scale, because their numbers of digits is going up by 1 regarded and sent separately. time: 2, 3, 4, and 5 digits. In this way, adding two digits multiplies the quantity measured on the log scale by a component of 100.