I’m unable to detach my mind from the linear scale imbedded in my head, how to make sense of a logarithmic increase?
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Just adding a thought to the nice explanation already given: if you are dealing with numbers on a big range, you prefer showing them on a log scale. This goes in both directions of “range”: far from 1 to the right and far from 1 to the left towards non-negative numbers. Between 1 and 1000 you got 1000 times bigger numbers, the same ratio as between 1 and 0.001. However if you plot on a linear scale, the 1000 is 1000 notches to the right in your plot, while the 0.001 is virtually just one notch left of 1. To “spread” them fairly, you plot them as fractions of each other, that’s what’s the log scale is doing.
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