On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:46:51PM BST, Karel Gardas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Erling Westenvik > <erling.westen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? > > decibel is also one-tenth of bell, isn't it?
Yes, as Benjamin has already explained and as the name suggests (sic!), it is one-tenth of a *bel* ... not *bell* :^) Raf
