Decade (log scale)

Four powers of 10 spanning a range of three decades: 1, 10, 100, 1000 (100, 101, 102, 103)
Four grids spanning three decades of resolution: 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1.

One decade (symbol dec) is a unit for measuring ratios on a logarithmic scale, with one decade corresponding to a ratio of 10 between two numbers.

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