Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:31:49 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:
> > Dunno about that, the S/N ratio on slashdot seems to get into the kB's > > somedays. > > I'm not sure what parallel universe you live in, but I'm > pretty damn sure that mine doesn't have 10000 times more > signal than noise on slashdot ;) > > An S+N/N of one kB is 40 dB...
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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>
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