Decade (log scale)

Four powers of 10 spanning a range of three decades: 1, 10, 100, 1000 (100, 101, 102, 103)
Four grids spanning three decades of resolution: One thousand 0.001s, one-hundred 0.01s, ten 0.1s, one 1.

One decade (symbol dec[1]) is a unit for measuring ratios on a logarithmic scale, with one decade corresponding to a ratio of 10 between two numbers.[2]

  1. ^ ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and Units – Space and time
  2. ^ "Decade, a factor, multiple, or ratio of 10", Andrew Butterfield & John Szymanski (2018) A Dictionary of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, fifth edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780191792717

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