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logarithmic definitions

Stefan Schuster stefan=schuster at rz.hu-berlin.de
Wed Jan 15 10:41:58 EST 1997


In line with David Fell's comment on logarithmic derivatives, I'd like to 
stress that these derivatives are invariant to the choice of units. When we 
write x = value times unit, we have, due to the rules of computation with 
logarithms: 
d log x = d log value plus d log unit.
d means in fact a difference, so d log unit is:
log unit - log unit = 0. So the unit does not matter.
I hope I have not increased the confusion.

Greetings

Stefan Schuster (Berlin) 



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