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--></style></head><body style=""><div>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!</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>I have 1 times less to say about it :)</div>
<div><br>Alex</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="position: relative; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 10px; border-left: solid 1px blue;">On 13 July 2015 at 14:03 Ian Hickling <transplanfm@hotmail.com> wrote:<br><br>
<div dir="ltr">Sorry - No
<div>"Better than" implies "in addition to" - that is - with the original status maintained - not with it added in.</div>
<div>No different from "Eleven times greater than...."</div>
<div>"More than" has to be an addition to what is already there.</div>
<div>"As many as" is a multiplier of what is already there - that's the difference</div>
<div>I 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"</div>
<div>Radio engineers may say that - but it's not right - is it?</div>
<div>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".</div>
<div>That says it all - surely?<br><br>
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