What do we gain from the most common unit of sound (Db) being non linear?
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if you tried to graph something like noise at a fourth of July party linearly over time, the cars parking, friends whispering to each other, children screaming and playing, and the oohs and aaahs would not even show up on the graph compared to the spikes when a firework went off.
If you want to be able to visually understand the information, logarithmic scales let you do that.
And its just as true as looking at numbers, nobody wants to look at 15 zeroes just to understand what you’re talking about.
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