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From: jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Tesla vs gauss, and other obscure units
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Date: 31 Oct 89 11:54:45 GMT
References: <1914@sactoh0.UUCP> <28601@buckaroo.mips.COM> <1989Oct29.174631.12960@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1989Oct29.224736.2838@utzoo.uucp> <851@ariel.unm.edu> <30339@buckaroo.mips.COM>
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In article <30339@buckaroo.mips.COM> vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes:
>The bel is of rather recent vintage, 1923 [ A Dictionary of Scientific Units,
>4th Ed., Chapman & Hall, 1980].  This source contains the statement that "in
>continental Europe, the neper is used instead of the bel."

Obsolete, I think.  A faint memory tells me that the neper is natural-log based
rather than log-base-10 based.  Never seen it used.
-- 
Jeremy Harris			jgh@root.co.uk