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by vonmoltke 3926 days ago
No, nitrogen's math is correct. The conversion from linear to dB is

y = 10 * log(x)

and the conversion back is

x = 10 ^ (y/10)

Every change of 3dB is a doubling or halving of power. Every change of 10dB is an order-of-magnitude change in power.

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Right, I did 24-13 instead of 240-130. That's 100 billion times the power.
D'oh! Thanks for catching my error!