I guess this is the difference big between RF engineers and academics - applied versus theory. Spreadsheets can help in doing conversion/calculations but doesn't stop people from using these values out of context as for this you need to know what you're doing.
BTW: I do these calculations in my head - pretty much primary school stuff really. cheerio Berndt On Friday 29 September 2006 11:33, Brian Padalino wrote: > You could open Google Spreadsheets in the web browser you've probably > already got open. Not only that, but you can share it with your > buddies for collaborative editing so everyone can use it! > > Or you could just write a bc script to to handle it. That uses much > less memory, I am sure. > > Or we could ask Google to build it into their calculator function so > you can just type "200 dB in mW" and it would do the conversion for > you! > > I wasn't trying to be a jerk, but I have noticed that spreadsheets are > much better at converting data to a visual format as well as extending > a dataset you might be building and doing some visual interpretations. > There's always more than one way to skin a cat, as GNURadio is all > about. > > On 9/28/06, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 29 September 2006 10:13, Brian Padalino wrote: > > > A spreadsheet could work just the same without all the Tcl/Tk > > > silliness or input verification problems. > > > > Yeah, a spreadsheet, so lightweight compared to a memory hungry Tcl/Tk > > application. > > > > 12623 radar 1 103 0 11972K 6068K select 0:00 3.97% wish8.4 > > 12643 darius 6 20 0 120M 72048K kserel 0:07 0.00% > > soffice.bin > > > > *cough* > > > > Not sure what you mean about input verification. > > > > -- > > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > > "The nice thing about standards is that there > > are so many of them to choose from." > > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
