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Currently I'm making some plots for my colleted data set from my conducted physics experiment. In one of the cases, I'm actually plotting the logarithmic relation between the dependent and independent variable.

In this case, where I for instance have time as unit on my axis, I'd denote the units as [s] for seconds, but how do you write the units when you have "logarithmic time"? I hope my question was made clear enough.

Thanks!

Tanamas
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You could show the actual numbers (e.g., $10^3$, $10^4$) and label the axis as “time [s]”, or you could plot the logarithms (e.g., 3, 4) and label the axis as “$\log_{10} \frac{\mathrm{time}}{1\ \mathrm{s}}$ [unitless]”. Some people will abbreviate this as “log(time) []” and figure they’ll be understood.

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