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thomblake comments on Thinking Bayesianically, with Lojban - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: DataPacRat 24 January 2012 06:47PM

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Comment author: thomblake 25 January 2012 08:05:14PM *  1 point [-]

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).

Comment author: [deleted] 25 January 2012 08:40:15PM 1 point [-]
log10(1024) = 3.010
10/3.010 = 3.32

You are right, the conversion factor is 3.01.