Concept

Logarithmic scale

Overview

measurement scale based on orders of magnitude

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X = β_x_, Y = γ_y_, Z = δ_z_. [β ≠ γ ≠ δ.] They proceed to adjust their differences, and first take the _x_-coordinates. Obviously they have taken different units of length along O_x_. The length OU_{1}, which A calls one unit, B calls β units.
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
Close in meaning to Logarithmic scale; the term itself is not named.
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An angle is a familiar example of a mode of magnitude with no real immeasurable values. One of the questions philosophy has to consider is whether the development of the universe is like the increase of an angle, so that it proceeds forever without tending toward anything unattained, which I take to be…
Charles S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic
States what Logarithmic scale is.
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The moderns, under the influence of Cartesian geometry, have reasserted the universal possibility of numerical measurement, extending arithmetic, partly for that purpose, so as to include what are called "irrational" numbers, which give the ratios of incommensurable lengths. But although irrational numbers have long been used without a qualm, it is only in quite recent years that logically satisfactory definitions…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
States what Logarithmic scale is.
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