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Re: [uom-ontology-std] Note on CLIF draft - approach to scale

To: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Cc: uom-ontology-std@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: David Leal <david.leal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:34:11 +0000
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At 12:23 06/01/2010 -0600, you wrote:
>PS. Any feedback on this?
>>>
>>> PPS. On terminology. Is there a widely accepted classification of
>>> scales into linear, affine, etc..? I simply made up some terminology,
>>> but it would be more satisfactory to use a standard if one is  
>>> available.    (01)

Alas not. The one term which seems to be consistently used is "logarithmic".
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec08.html clause 8.7 may be an
appropriate authoritative source.    (02)





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