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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: A conundrum about the AWG (wire gauge) table
Message-ID: <5170092@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 90 01:31:57 GMT
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>Just to add more fuel to the fire, if you use decibels (defined as 10log(x),
>where the log is base 10 and the x is a ratio) then a ratio of 2 is 3.01dB.
>Decibels are a common engineering unit (at least in Electrical Engineering), so
>perhaps the gauges sizes are based on this.

...but _if_ a ratio of 2 in x-section was a 3.01 change in gauge number,
then a ratio of 10 in x-section would be exactly a 10 gauge number change.
..."Which it ain't."  So who has looked this up in an engineering/
technology history?

(Besides, I _suspect_ wire gauges were settling down before common use of
dB.)