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minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoSo a 10 is a thousand times hotter than a 7? And a 1 is a million times less hot?
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agologarithmic doesn’t necessarily mean using a base of 10: Examples of equally spaced values are 10, 100, 1000, 10000, and 100000 (i.e., 10^1, 10^2, 10^3, 10^4, 10^5) and 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 (i.e., 2^1, 2^2, 2^3, 2^4, 2^5). (Wikipedia)
So a 10 is a thousand times hotter than a 7? And a 1 is a million times less hot?
logarithmic doesn’t necessarily mean using a base of 10:
(Wikipedia)