• @AlataOrange
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      51 year ago

      It’s honestly not that useful I’ve only ever seen it in high level statistics

      • mohKohn
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        11 year ago

        They come up in complex analysis bc writing polynomials in terms of their roots is sometimes useful.

    • Kogasa
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      11 year ago

      Convergence issues aside, you can get from a product to a sum by taking logarithms. This is often a feasible way to reason about them / prove results about them.