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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by wolf550e on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:38PM (#14866937)
Many people cannot visualize log scale.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by ttoinou on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:55PM (#14867771)
Well that's what visualization are for. Wealth might be more "multiplicative" than "additive", hence a log scale would be more suitable to study it
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