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A 'logarithmic scale' often also refers to a graphing scale, which will allow for a large range to be expressed on the axis and also makes exponential relationships follow a straight line.The reason that metric is often said to be 'logarithmic' is that there are new named units every power of thousand.
Damned, I must have made a mistake. Must be a mathematics teachers' forum
Mysteriously, I have been a mathematics teacher (although moreso a physics teacher).