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José Luís Malaquias's avatar

Thank you. I always thought that my bad relation with dB stemmed from my intellectual limitations. It turns out that it wasn't just me...

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Saul Pwanson's avatar

> In principle, we have several types of shorthand notations; for example, instead of “300,000” we can write “3e5”. That said, I don’t know how to pronounce “3e5”, so it’s not unreasonable to come up with a name for the exponent.

I'm working to promote "magnitude notation". In this, 3e5 would become ^5.5, and pronounced "mag 5.5". Closer to the Richter scale than decibels, but universally applicable.

https://saul.pw/mag

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