Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The ...

Data from an experiment may result in a graph indicating exponential growth. This implies the formula of this growth is \(y = k{x^n}\), where \(k\) and \(n\) are constants. Using logarithms, we can ...

Problem: How many colors are needed so that if each point in the plane is assigned one of the colors, no two points which are exactly distance 1 apart will be assigned the same color? This problem has ...