Logarithmic scale

A logarithmic scale is a way of measuring numbers that are very different from each other. For example, the distance from the Earth to the sun is very different from the distance from the Earth to the moon. If we were to measure these distances on a regular scale, like a ruler, the sun would be much farther away than the moon. But on a logarithmic scale, the distance between the Earth and the sun will be the same as the distance between the Earth and the moon. This is because on a logarithmic scale, the bigger numbers are all shrunken down so they are easier to measure.