Made a mistake when rearranging parens. It's not wrong, just a little ugly. That should of course be: order = log(max(abs(s), 1)) * (s / max(abs(s), 1)) Or,

Made a mistake when rearranging parens. It's not wrong, just a little ugly. That should of course be: order = log(max(abs(s), 1)) * (s / max(abs(s), 1)) Or, better: ns = max(abs(s), 1) order = log(ns) * (s / ns)