logarithmic

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The researchers discovered that the mathematical framework at the heart of Ramanujan's pi formulas also appears in the equations underlying these logarithmic conformal field theories.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

While this was 0.3 magnitude greater than in 2011, that’s a twofold difference under the Richter scale, which is logarithmic.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023

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

He read books on calculus and logarithmic algebra and loved what he called the poetry and symmetry of math.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls