[sdiy] Rest In Peace Bob

[Peter Grenader]

Well, all I got to say is when i did the faceplates for M&K my head would
have rolled if I didn't.notate a decibel as dB.





> At 07:58 PM 8/23/05, Peter Grenader wrote:
>> Actually, the lower case would not *necessarily* be required for a 'Moog'.
>> 
>> An example  -  a dB of course is a decibel.
> 
> Yes, a "decibel" with a lower case "b".
> 
>> Ever wonder why the B is
>> capitalized in the abbreviation?
> 
> It isn't always. See the old Bell Labs books on acoustics by Olson. They
> always used to use db.
> 
>> The term was introduced by Bell Labs and
>> named after Alexander Graham Bell, hence it is always capitalized in use.
> 
> No, it is capatalized because the SI committee decided to do names that
> way.  E.g., 1 N = one newton.
> 
> You are confused betweem the name of the unit and its abreviation.
>