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I mean in your assertion that `log` must mean `log10`. I have huge sympathy for contending with inconsistent use of ambiguous notation. My pet hate is `gamma` v
by Y_Y 10y ago
I mean in your assertion that `log` must mean `log10`. I have huge sympathy for contending with inconsistent use of ambiguous notation. My pet hate is `gamma` vs. `tgamma`.
- ktamiola 10y agoI wouldn't dare to suggest that, yet that's the route that physics and all derivatives have adopted! We are essentially at the crossroad and obviously, programming, which develops nowadays a bit faster than theoretical physics or mathematics, pushes in one direction.
- Y_Y 10y agoWell my anecdatum, as a theoretical physicist, is that people very rarely write `log` or use logarithms is bases other than e.
- ktamiola 10y agoI had a one more look at the article, and you are right! I need to add an log(10) = 2.303 example