29 Apr
2006
29 Apr
'06
2:32 p.m.
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 10:50 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:00:04 +0000, carmen wrote:
Errm, you you really need to think about that harder. The hint that "this
should be scaled logarithmically" isn't enough information to do anything
useful - try it. If you try to define an operation that hosts can apply
generally then you will find there are lots of cases where it can't
be applied. Either because it can't be computed, or because it does
something unhelpful.
It's information with which you can do something a LOT more useful than
without...
-DR-
It's
not possible for a host to know how to scale a port from just the unit
labeling. Unit labeling and input value scaling are independent, in fact
are completely orthogonal except in certain conventional cases like
IEC for some (not all!) dB ranges.
++. there definitely needs to be a 'logarithmic' hint. maybe even log(10) vs
log(2).