On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:09:58PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:14:30AM BST, Karel Gardas wrote: > > > Following this: http://unixhq.com/websgt/sunblade150.pdf -- it's 5.5 > > bells (is that 55 dB?). > > Yes - it's a standard SI prefix[0]. However, 'bel'(B), *not* 'bell', is > not used very often and 'decibel'(dB) is the actual unit.
The wonders of metric logic: a decimeter is one-tenth of a meter, but a decibel is ten times a bel? Erling > [0] http://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/prefixes.html > > Raf
