Notice something magical here: as the numbers inside the logarithms grew multiplicatively, increasing tenfold each time from 100 to 1,000 to 10,000, their logarithms grew additively, increasing from 2 to 3 to 4. Our brains perform a similar trick when we listen to music. The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.
