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To: pfflier

I know that a quake of 5 is I think 10 times larger than for and so on but is it possible you could explain logarithm like to a 5 year old…askin’ for a friend ;)


59 posted on 07/08/2021 8:58:01 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Think of it as the number of zeros after the 1.

3 vs 4 is 1 larger so 10 times bigger.

3 vs 5 is 2 larger so 100 times bigger.

3 vs 6 is 1000 times bigger.

7 is 10,000 times bigger than a 3.


60 posted on 07/08/2021 9:12:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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