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This chapter establishes a good inequality for linear combinations of ordinary logarithms of algebraic numbers. As is well-known, special cases were known to Gelfond for two logarithms, but Baker was the first to see how to deal with more than two. Feldman [Fe 4] then obtained an inequality which is especially good with respect to the heights of the coefficients of the relation, using special interpolation polynomials.
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Lang, S. (1978). The Baker—Feldman Theorem. In: Elliptic Curves. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07010-9_8
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