{"id":402,"date":"2011-04-12T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T02:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2011\/04\/12\/the_wonderful_logarithm_or_blo\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T02:23:59","slug":"the-wonderful-logarithm-or-blo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2011\/04\/12\/the-wonderful-logarithm-or-blo\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonderful logarithm (or blog on log)"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve been marking a couple of student assignments today. I won’t go into the details, but as part of it they had to process some data and plot some graphs. The graphs showed values that varied considerably – some thousands of times bigger than others. I had expected (assumed = bad move) that the students would use logarithms to show their data, but, regrettably, they didn’t, so I had to look at data points that I could barely distinguish above the axis.<\/p>\n