[cma-l] Radio 1 Eleven Times As Good As - Or Is It Better Than - Commercial Radio?

[Ian Hickling]

Ah Neil - Don't confuse "alacrity" with "accuracy"!
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From: fortwilliam20 at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:18:05 +0100
To: tlr at gairloch.co.uk; cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Radio 1 Eleven Times Better than Commercial Radio? – FM Spectrum Consumption in the UK

Jings, Can I suggest gentlemen you take up broadcasting! It appears you have the ability to fill up white space with alacrity.
And as I read recently, we all know E in E=mc2 stands for Einstein! What oes it matter!
Neil MacLeod
On 13 Jul 2015, at 14:34, tlr at gairloch.co.uk wrote:I understand, and empathize with your view entirely, but English is spoken to be understood. It's just like the abuse of 'to decimize' or 'enormity'- they are regrettable, but it's English, not logic or a dead language! I agree, 6dB in power indicates an arithmetical factor of four, but you were complaining about whether that factored by four value should be added on to the original or replace it/  I contend that in English the phrase that includes "11 times better" is used, conventionally, to indicate something is better by being 11 times as good.  I have 1 times less to say about it :)
Alex On 13 July 2015 at 14:03 Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:

Sorry - No"Better than" implies "in addition to" - that is - with the original status maintained - not with it added in.No different from "Eleven times greater than....""More than" has to be an addition to what is already there."As many as" is a multiplier of what is already there - that's the differenceI refer back to the concept of "one time better than" - which although we do not use, has to be acceptable in a mathematical system - and means "twice as good as"Radio engineers may say that - but it's not right - is it?6dB in power (rather than voltage or current) terms is an arithmetical factor of four - so 6dB up is four times the power (or "as powerful".That says it all - surely?

Ian Hickling
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