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From: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Information Density of Sight and Sound
Message-ID: <356@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 27 Feb 90 23:30:12 GMT
References: <90057.153351RMC100@psuvm.psu.edu> <24837@siemens.siemens.com>
Reply-To: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt)
Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia
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In article <24837@siemens.siemens.com> fwb@demon.UUCP (Frederic W. Brehm) writes:
> Errors in the analog world are called "noise".

No. Errors in the analogue world are called 'distortion' if they are a
function of the signal, and 'noise' if they are independent of the
signal.


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Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group
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