Talk:Nat (unit)

Re: Merger suggestion

Just delete the other article, and mention the alternative name here if there are references for it. Personally, I've never even heard of a nit. Stanford Goldman calls it a "nepit", a contraction for "neperian [sic] digit". -- 130.94.162.61 23:31, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

counting in and converting to Nat

There is a neat summary: One nat corresponds to about 1.44 bits $\left({\tfrac {1}{\ln 2}}\right)$ , or 0.434 bans $\left({\tfrac {1}{\ln 10}}\right)$ .

But I am still having trouble counting and converting to Nat. What are the digit (Natit) symbols? How many are there? does 1(nat) = e(decimal) What is 2(nat)? help me count to e^3 in nat.

Thanks!--Lbeaumont (talk) 13:53, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can count in base e if you want, but you lose some properties of normal bases which you might expect. The biggest one is that there is no canonical representation of a number. To answer your questions: If I remember correctly, sequences of {0,1,2} are sufficient to represent any number base e. 1 is equal to 1 in decimal (1 times e^0), 2 is equal to 2 in decimal. e^3 could be written as 1000.--2003:69:CD03:4301:2E81:58FF:FEFF:8F4B (talk) 21:52, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Natural unit

Why is nat the "natural unit" of entropy?