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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 18 21:21:30 +0000 2007 ------- I have added 2 picture from an article published in the journal "Nature" depicting this feature. As stated, this option is often used in academic publishing when dealing with: - large variations in the scale - need to point out the difference between two values When wanting to point out the difference between 2 values, the logarithm is much more useful, because we will have the difference expressed as 1 point, 2 points or the like (and NOT absolute differences of e.g. 560,000 vs 7,002,500; in this case the log difference is 1.09, i.e. 5.75 vs 6.85). One particular field where this is useful is in virology, where viral load is more accurately represented by the log value: e.g. when measuring the effectiveness of HIV treatment, we measure the viral load, BUT more important we need to know the variation in the viral load, and here the logarithm is more easy to interpret. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
