ability and the logarithm of sample segment sizes. These easy, yet powerful methods were brought to experimentalists’ attention by Benoit Mandelbrot (Montroll and Badger, 1974; Mandelbrot, 1983; Fedor, 1988; Bassingthwaighte et al, 1994; Liebovitch, 1998). To estimate the exponent in Hurst rescaled range analysis, we