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ELI5: Why is the decibel scale logarithmic?
It’s just extremely unintuitive: if a vacuum cleaner is 60 db, I would expect that 120 db is the equivalent of a lawnmower, not a jet engine.
u/Dull_Pollution4691 — 6 days ago
It’s just extremely unintuitive: if a vacuum cleaner is 60 db, I would expect that 120 db is the equivalent of a lawnmower, not a jet engine.