On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:19:29 GMT, Jim - NN7K
wrote:
Cecil is CORRECT
A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information.

Hi Jim,

I must've missed something here with this dimensionless, referenceless
declaration. I'm not even sure if there isn't an implicit negative
sign to it.

Would this be 100dB above ignorance? 100dB below genius? What is the
zero reference for information? Valid information, and simply
available information is not exchanged at the same rate (100dB above
entropy?). It can't be zero information because that would cause the
computation to be "undefined." Hmmm, maybe the baseline is the
computation of no information. -No- That returns us to the conundrum
of even what is 1dB above "undefined?" SWAG? In that regard:
A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information re SWAG

Can there be a ratio of 1 SWAG : 10¹º Facts? When I enter the
universal measure of knowledge into Google, it only returns
"19,400,000 for TITS." This is roughly 500 times below the
declaration made above. Does it follow you must perform 500 SWAGs to
successfully achieve your goal of TITS? This sounds almost about the
same as the computation of probability for a teenage boy on a date
running out of gas on a dark road - and yet historically this occurs
far more often than chance.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC