News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person. Parent comment

Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by welterde on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:56PM (#14869426)
Assigning an absolute number is much more difficult than assigning numbers on the relative difference between things.

Just take the use of dB in acoustics or the magnitude system in astronomy.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by majewsky on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:46PM (#14869918)
Both dB and the magnitude system have nothing to do with difficulty, and everything with practicality. The dB scale is defined in terms of air pressure, which runs on a linear scale.
[ Parent | on HN ]