signal to noise

[Dave Korn]

On 08 January 2008 02:15, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> I found this on the doxygen list, thought it was worth sharing... yike!
> Good thing he wasn't trying to post to Cygwin ;-). (The SF.Net trailers
> are added by the list mailer, unfortunately.)

  Hmmm...

/artimi/software/firmware $ tr -d '>' | wc -c -
> PS The bit about external linkage is 3.5 verse 3 in the C++ bible - I mean
standard.
86 -

/artimi/software/firmware $ tr -d '>' | wc -c -
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1884 -
/artimi/software/firmware $

20*log10(86/1884) = -26.811648944265816857303195492953dB

  Not all that bad, as it happens; I've seen worse...

    cheers,
      DaveK
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