There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases in which one or a few points are much larger than the ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A logarithmic price scale is a charting method that shows price changes as ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

Producing an output voltage that is directly proportional to the logarithm of an input voltage or current, logarithmic amplifier chips are often useful in applications involving signal compression, ...

Graphs of exponential functions and logarithmic functions provide a visual insight into their properties, such as growth, decay, and the inverse relationship between them. Graphs of exponential ...