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Stable distributions on \(\mathbb{R}^ d\) can be characterized (or defined, depending on the approach) by the following condition on their characteristic functions \(\varphi\): For each \(a,b>0\), there are \(c>0\) and \(z\in\mathbb{R}^ d\) such that \[ \varphi(ax)\varphi(bx)=e^{i\langle x,z\rangle} \varphi(cx), \qquad x\in\mathbb{R}^ d. \tag{*} \] The main aim of the note is to show that the above condition can take the form: There exist \(a,b,c>0\) and \(z\in\mathbb{R}\) with \((a/c)^ m\neq(b/c)^ n\) for any integers \(m\), \(n\), such that equation (*) holds. A number of corollaries to this characterization are also derived.