Timeline for The origin of the natural base in statistical mechanics
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| Feb 24, 2022 at 6:43 | history | edited | YCor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2022 at 5:25 | answer | added | Buzz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 17:39 | vote | accept | Aidan Rocke | ||
| Feb 23, 2022 at 13:59 | history | edited | Aidan Rocke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2022 at 11:41 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 10:29 | comment | added | Aidan Rocke | @MattF. In brief, Occam's razor. If you do Statistical Mechanics calculations, within an hour you might use Stirlings log-factorial approximation 20 times. So from the vantage point of computational complexity, the natural base saves us a $\mathcal{O}(N)$ cost. But, the ultimate reason may be more subtle than this. Hence my question. | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 1:34 | comment | added | user44143 | Why does the choice of base matter? We can write Boltzmann’s equation as $S=k\ln W$ or $S=k’ \log_2 W$ with $k’=k\ln 2$. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 23:34 | history | asked | Aidan Rocke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |