What do we gain from the most common unit of sound (Db) being non linear?

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What do we gain from the most common unit of sound (Db) being non linear?

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Sound scales with distance following the inverse square law. This means sound power level decreases with (distance)^2. Logarithmic math allows us to add and subtract exponentials very easily, without having to do a lot of multiplication.

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