On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 05:43:35 -0700, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:

The bel is the logarithm (to the base 10) of a power ratio.
Decibels are ten times that.

Errm, 1/10_th surely.

Nope. There are ten decibels in one bel.


My point stands. A decibel is 1/10 of a bel.
That's what I said before. It's NOT what you wrote.