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| - | ===== Logarithmic plots ===== | ||
| - | Logarithmic plots are useful when the data you're plotting varies over many orders of magnitude. Logarithmic plots can also highlight certain functional relationships | ||
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| - | ^ plot command ^ functional relationship ^ | ||
| - | | **plot(x,y)** ^ $y = mx + b$ ^ | ||
| - | | **semilogy(x,y)** | $y = c \; 10^{mx}$ ^ | ||
| - | | **semilogx(x,y)** | $y = m \log x + b$ ^ | ||
| - | | **loglog(x,y)** | $y = c x^m$ ^ | ||
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