Talk:Logarithmic units

Hi, I wrote the original logarithmic units article, and I would be OK with merging it into the logarithmic scale article, as long as none of the concepts are lost - perhaps it could be made a subsection of the Logarithmic Scale article. However, there are some links to the Logarithmic Units article which would have to be fixed. Also, I don't have time to do the merge myself, although I would be happy to go back in and review it for accuracy after someone else does it. Mike Frank (talk) 11:31, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I also think that that is an excellent idea. Both articles seem to "require" each other rather than only being complimentary. It would thus be a service to have the fine content of the logarithmic units article embedded in the logarithmic scale article. This could possibly simplify the use/usability of the information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.67.64.29 (talk) 21:30, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

This moved material was excised from Logarithmic scale with no discussion or anything. So I have put it back here. I offer no opinions about what should be done with it, and I won't get involved in any discussions, but I offer this advice:


 * If it's moved back to Logarithmic scale or anywhere, be sure to add in the wiki code so that people won't be so cavalier about cutting it again.


 * If it shouldn't be in Wikipedia at all, then have a proper VfD instead of moving it somewhere else and then cutting it from there. (I don't think that this method of effectively deleting an article was deliberate in this case, but that's what happened, and it shouldn't.)

I'll add a reference so that it's not completely unreferenced, but I don't plan to work further on this.

—Toby Bartels (talk) 18:10, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Dubious
I agree that the example the of bit as a logarithmic unit is ambiguous because it depends on a counter-intuitive and unnatural definition of a bit. The bit, as a measure quantity of data that may be used to represent information, is not a logarithmic unit; it is only logarithmic if you define a bit as equal to a shannon, which is not the definition most readers will first think of. Klbrain (talk) 17:29, 7 January 2018 (UTC)