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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:04:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help
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> <pedantic>
>
> dB is decibel, kB would be kilobel, so one kB is 10000 dB
>
> a kilobel works out to a signal to noise ratio of 10^1000, which is pretty big,
> and definately a bit bigger than the slashdot signal to noise ratio  :)
>
> </pedantic>
<b><pedantic>
if dB is 10 bel's, wouldn't kB be 1000 bel's, therefore one kB is only 100
deci-bel's?

Creating a S/N ratio of 10^100?

</pedantic></b>

I forget what we were debating now.

mike

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