At 07:47 PM 7/16/01 -0300, Alexandre Domingos F. Souza wrote:
> >A "Bell" (named after Alexander Graham Bell) is a means of quantifying the
> >power ratio of two signals.  The scale is logarithmic, with an increase of 1
> >Bell denoting in increase in the power ratio by a factor of 10.  A factor of
>
>         Olin, isn't the unit called BEL???

Yes, but it's inconveniently large, so we use deci-bels
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