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		nick__m on June 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly lin... fractional exponents don't work like that, for example x^½ is the square root of x. You probably meant 10^-1 !

jjk166 on June 19, 2023 [–]

No, 1 decibel is 10^1/10. Bels are multiplicative, not additive. You multiply 10^.1 by itself 10 times and you get 10^1. Similarly if you multiply x^1/2 by x^1/2 you get x.

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