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Weber-Fechner Law and the Optimality of the Logarithmic Scale

✍ Scribed by R. D. Portugal; B. F. Svaiter

Publisher
Springer
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
290 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0924-6495

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