What's That Called?

[Steve Barber]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:01:04PM -0500, Jon Pennington wrote:
> George Roffe said:

> > Dual range or dual scale.  Something like that.

> I've seen the Autometer tachs that have narrow <5k and broad >5k ranges,
> but those are dual range, and not smooth in operation.  I could have sworn
> that the Skyline's was actually a growing scale.

Isn't the word you guys are looking for (the inverse of logarithmic;
an expanding scale) "exponential"?

Steve