[Randall Munroe] certainly understands the power of graphical representation of data. The humorous plots in his xkcd webcomic are one of the favorite parts for many readers. Their distinctive ...

This means that if you raise 10 to the power of 3.09132, you get 1,234 ... Since the horizontal scale is still linear, this is called a semi-log plot. A log-log plot would have both axis in ...