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Comment by ttoinou

6 months ago

    When we measure sound pressure, we measure it in log (so, every 3dB is a doubling in sound pressure), but our hearing perceives this as a linear scale

Its the other way around : we perceive logarithmically so we created the logarithmic decibel scale

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