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Everything about Logarithmic scale
Measurement scale based on orders of magnitude
A logarithmic scale is a method used to display numerical data that spans a broad range of values, especially when there are significant differences among the magnitudes of the numbers involved. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Logarithmic scaleA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading timeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The young mathematician's guideThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Weber-Fechner Law and the Optimality of the Logarithmic ScaleCited 78 times
- Go sideways: NeperA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Level (logarithmic quantity)A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Weber-Fechner Law and the Optimality of the Logarithmic Scale
Scale invariant pattern recognition with logarithmic radial harmonic filters
Travel vaccine preventable diseases—updated logarithmic scale with monthly incidence rates
Evidence that pigeons represent both time and number on a logarithmic scale
On logarithmic extensions of local scale-invariance
Large-Scale Structure of Chromatin: A Fractal Globule or a Logarithmic Fractal?
A general two-scale criteria for logarithmic Sobolev inequalities
Critical phenomena on scale-free networks: Logarithmic corrections and scaling functions
🆕 Influential since 2022
Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time
Graph distances in scale-free percolation: the logarithmic case
Smallest Eigenvalues Based Logarithmic Derivative Method for Computing Dominant Oscillation Modes in Large-scale Power Systems
Double-scale Gevrey Asymptotics for Logarithmic Type Solutions to Singularly Perturbed Linear Initial Value Problems
Lossy numerical simulation of HRTFs using a linear-logarithmic frequency scale
📚 Books worth reading
The young mathematician's guideJohn Ward (of Chester) · 1707
Single Variable Calculus, Early TranscendentalsJames Stewart · 1991
Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole artJohn Seller · 1672
Professor Stewart's incredible numbersIan Stewart · 2015
The mariner's new calendarNathaniel Colson · 1760- 📕Treatise of measuresHenry Coggeshall · 1690
- 📕Higher algebraHenry Sinclair Hall · 1887
- 📕Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole artJohn Seller · 1672
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