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In article <1992Nov22.204205@IASTATE.EDU>, cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald) writes...
>Jim Scannell writes,
>	  ...THe progression is
>	  somewhat logarithmic since +5 is considered a 
>	"mythic characteristic."
> 
>This is not the first time I have heard of a distribution
>being referred to as "logarithmic" in this newsgroup, and
>it confuses me.  Does this mean that the value approaches
>a maximum or minimum value asymptotically?  I was under the
>impression that the logarithm of x was the integral of 
>x to the -1 power, a singular function due to the n+1 term
>in the denominator going to zero.  I do not see how this
>fits any regular dice distributions, which tend to be either
>linear or bell curves.
> 
	Pardon me, I'm not a math major, and I guess I was reaching for
terms a little bit.  What I was trying to say is that the progression
between one step, say +1 to +2, is a much smaller interval in terms of
the relative increase in ability that comes from the step at +4 to +5.
A +1 is better than average, +2 is good, +3 is excellent, +4 is rather
extraordinary, and +5 is "Mythic".  Exponential might have been a better
word than logarithmic.

					Jim Scannell