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 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

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