Re: [Matplotlib-users] Entropy calculation incorrect?

[Nathan L. <nal...@gm...>]

Jerzy,

Yes, understood.
The issue here is that the function is documented incorrectly and I have made a pull request to fix that.


Best regards,
Nathan.



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 From: Jerzy Karczmarczuk <jer...@un...>
To: mat...@li... 
Sent: Monday, 28 April 2014, 10:02
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Entropy calculation incorrect?
 

This is a side-remark.

Please, don't exaggerate with the term "incorrect". Binary, decimal, 
natural... logarithms, all this is just a matter of multiplicative 
CONSTANT, and sometimes a question of convention.
I am a physicist, and for "us" the entropy is NOT given in bits. We use 
natural logarithms, and in order to have the units appropriate for 
statistical physics / thermodynamics, we multiply the result by the 
Boltzmann constant, 1.38*10^(-23) Joule/Kelvin, and that's it.

Anyway, Eric Firing is right, all this has nothing to do with Matplotlib.

Best regards.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk

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