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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