Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
>> I agree about the Pad Thai. I have never found that to be spicy. We have a
>> nice Thai restaurant near here and they will adjust the spice to your
>> taste using a scale of 1 to 5. The last time we were there with out son
>> we toned it down because , while my son and I both like hot spicy food, my
>> wife refers it somewhat milder. So we ordered one dish at 2 and the other
>> at 3. The 2 was mild for my taste, but the 3 was really hot. They must
>> use a logarithmic scale. I hate to imagine what 4 or 5 would be like.
>
> That would be an exponential scale. A logarithmic scale would flatten out as
> the numbers got higher.
>
> Bob, mathesemantician
>


Okay. I won't argue with someone who us good at math because I flunked
my way through math. I was thinking of something like the Richter Scale,
where an increase of one on the scale means ten times the power of the
quake. A 2 is 10 times the power of a 1, a 3 is ten times that of a 2
and so on.