For reference, the loudest sound ever on earth was 180dB https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
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20000 decibel, or 2 kilobel
yes, deci- is the si prefix for ^1^/~10~. the actual unit is the bel.
i am saddled with this cursed knowledge so now you must be too.
Are you a fellow PAG/NAG calculator, too?
More cursed knowledge (for them, probably not you): it's logarithmic so every 3dB increase is double the energy!
When I was in my first year of college - 26 years ago - I asked a question about logarithms and was thoroughly, angrily (and, looking back on the event, probably justifiably) reamed out by another student about it.
I don't think I publicly spoke up for the rest of that class.
edit: Remove extra words.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it probably wasn't justified to respond to a math question like that lol
I think it was an overreaction in terms of its delivery, but I was homeschooled and started college early. I was the stereotypical socially inept homeschooler. The class was introduction to college algebra, which doesn't usually cover logarithms AFAIK; I brought them up unprompted during a quiet moment when the teacher was cleaning the whiteboard. I was curious about them because I had been reading my older brother's textbooks and found them interesting.
The other student's complaint about me was that I monopolized the teacher's attention by sitting front and center and raising my hand for every question. Additionally she felt that I was trying to show off. At that point I was also very visibly younger than everyone else, which did occasionally annoy people. (This became less of an issue when I hit puberty and started growing a beard.)
But I was oblivious to those kinds of things at the time and didn't realize I was having any kind of impact on anyone else in the class until the other student chastised me. Perhaps it was an overreaction, but the message was one I needed to hear, I think.
Also, to their credit, that student did apologize to me, more calmly expressing the nature of their grievances; I apologized in turn and said that I would try to be less disruptive.
Fair enough. I had some pretty annoying kids in my classes but I never thought to rip them apart in front of everyone!
Your attitude is appreciated! That's the only time it ever happened to me, so either that lady was an outlier or I got better.
Funny thing about that, they weren't even in a math class, it was a gender studies class.
no i just like units. which is why i did know that as well.
People always tilt when I tell them that half an order of magnitude is 3.
It doesn't feel like it makes sense
3²=10 It's always more obvious without the log.
double the power... recursed!!!
Which one is babybel?
A Regional Bell Operating Company, roughly ^1^/~7~ of a Bell.
This one is used to measure the sound of cheesy music.
sea scallops have hundreds of eyes which disappear when cooked
Oh god how have I never realized this. You monster!
Also, it's crazy to me that we still use the normal metric prefixes for a logarithmic scale!
it's like with earthquakes, the number is for the amount of zeroes
That may actually explain the "Bell" enemies in Vintage Story. Noisy assholes.
That's how many tacobel?
11111111111111111111111111110101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010//////sadflkafsfafaAV10101010
agreed