Comment by slowhadoken
1 month ago
If I remember right Isaac Asimov wrote down similar notes on scale and they were publish but I can’t remember what the book was called. I used to do the same think when I was a kid. A teacher saw me doing it and mentioned the book. It haunts me to this day.
Is "Measure of the Universe" the book you're thinking of?
Alternatively, chapter 8 of "Realm of Numbers" touches on logarithms, and "That's about the size of it" chapter from Assimov on Numbers" includes a log-scale table of animal weights (from blue whale at 8.08 to Rotifer at -8.22)
Could be, I’ll check it out. It’s probably on of those childhood memories lost in time. Thanks though.