I wrote a small program to plot a logarithmic scale. Although it's wider 
at one end than the other, it doesn't look quite right to me. And when I 
attempted to do some calculations with it, I got gibberish answers.

Upon further investigation, I discovered that my logarithmic scale is 
not, in fact, logarithmic. It fails to have at least two properties that 
a propper log scale should have:

Fact #1: The distance from 1 to 2 should equal the distance from 2 to 4.

Fact #2: The distance from 1 to 2 should equal the distance from 10 to 20.

Looking at my scale, the distance from 10 to 20 is about a dozen times 
larger than from 1 to 2. EPIC FAILURE.

As I said, the tick marks aren't equally spaced - so it's not a linear 
scale. But it's also not properly logarithmic either. God only knows how 
I've managed to get something this trivial so badly wrong... :'{

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