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Okay, so we don't actually have to change the base we're counting in, we'd be changing the units we're counting - instead of X number of decibels, it would be X number of bits, and X can be expressed in base 10 either way.
I'd like to take a day or so to think about the best way to approach this - it may very well be as simple as adding a note to the reftext about how to convert decibels to bits by dividing by three.
Yeah, number of bits is still expressed in base ten (lol, I just realized that all bases are base 10 in their own base).
I don't know about this divide by three business. it's not exactly 3. You should use the correct value.
EDIT: log(10)/log(2) = 3.3219
It seems like divide by 3 should be about right. 2**10 is roughly 10**3, so 30 decibels is about 10 bits. (1024 versus 1000).
You are right, the conversion factor is 3.01.