logarithmic

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Their investigation led them to a broad family of theories known as conformal field theories, and more specifically to logarithmic conformal field theories.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

The scale for brightness is reverse logarithmic, which means the brighter an object is, the lower its magnitude number.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2023

The scale’s objective, base-10 logarithmic system caught on, and although it’s been superseded, people still attach his name to the scale.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 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