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First sentence on Wikipedia: "In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object..."
by pishpash 9y ago
First sentence on Wikipedia: "In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object..."
- privong 9y ago> First sentence on Wikipedia: "In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object..." That doesn't tell you whether the magnitudes are normally distributed though. That just tells you how the magnitude is computed from an object's observed/measured flux.
- pishpash 9y agoI'm explaining why magnitude looking normally distributed doesn't contradict the parent.