log forvalues

[jerome falken]

while

forvalues i = 10(10)200 {

works great, and increments i linearly, is it possible to easily do the same with logarithmic increments instead of linear increments, i.e. increment i from log(10) to log(200) with steps of 10, therefore log(10), log(20) all the way to log(200)?

Or perhaps the "best" way is to do

local j=log(`i')

within the loop and use j as the "increment" here? Let me know, I'm curious to hear about alternative ways to solve this. Thank you!

[Nick Cox]

I would refer to the logarithm inside the loop and avoid putting it in another local macro.

[jerome falken]

thank you Nick