Complex sentence: Alternatively, it may be defined as, where is the natural logarithm, defined in any of its standard ways; using the complex logarithm in this definition allows the binary logarithm to be extended to the complex numbers.
Split into simpler sentences: Alternatively, it may be defined as, where is the natural logarithm, defined in any of its standard ways. Using the complex logarithm in this definition allows the binary logarithm to be extended to the complex numbers.