On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 14:00 -0400, David Willmore wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:41 PM, David Lamparter <equinox@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > d-B-m is deci-Bel-milliWatt, so a mBm ostensibly is a > > milli-Bel-milliWatt... > > > > (yes, the "m" really encodes "mW"...) > > The value is a "Power", so the base unit of Watts is implicit. > > This particular unit has always confused the heck out of me. > It's *not* milli-Bel-milliWatt or the division would be by 1000, > so it's really centi-Bel-milliWatt, no? No, the d in dB already means it's 1/10 B, and mB is (was meant to be) 1/1000 B -- so the conversion factor is 100. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
