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dsimms on Aug 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Micromort

The idea of scaling probabilities (by 10^6) misses the point. Log scales are better at revealing orders of magnitude! How about dbMorts instead?

elnate on Aug 24, 2013 [–]

I have always struggled with log/db, can you explain your proposed system?

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