On Thursday 25 August 2011 20:04:39 Robert Nichols wrote: > On 08/25/2011 12:20 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I'm not complaining about formatting. What I don't understand is why is > > SNR equal to 46, and not to the ratio of signal to noise, ie. 42/88, > > which is not 46, but 0.47? Or take the next row in your table: signal: > > -52, noise: -88, SNR: 36, quality: 52%. However, the ratio of signal to > > noise is 52/88 = 0.59, which has apparently nothing to do with the given > > SNR value 36, nor with the signal quality of 52%. > > Decibel is a logarithmic scale. Computing the ratio of two signals is > done by subtracting one dB measurement from the other. Aaah, the numbers were given in decibels, that explains everything... Apologies for the noise... ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines