re what is zero db joseph chiu josephc cco caltech edu wrote sehari iastate edu babak sehari writes similarly people usually use db for dbm another common mistake is spelling db instead of db as you did in your article see the b is for bell company the mother of at t and should be capitalized thus a decibell deci l tenth of bell is a fractional part of the original bell for example southwestern bell is a decibell out of what hat did you pull this one db is a ratio not an rboc and the measure of current amp is actually named after both the amp company and the amphenol company both companies revolutionized electronics by simulatenously realizing that the performance of connectors and sockets were affected by the amount of current running through the wires sorry the unit for current is the ampere which is the name of a french man named ampere who studied electrical current the term amp is just an abbreviation of it the company amp came after the ampere unit was already in use the ohmite company was the first to characterize resistances by numbers thus our use of the ohms i don t know about this one but it doesn t sound right alexander graham bell actually is where bell came from well you got one thing right actually bel refers with highest regards babak sehari joseph chiu josephc cco caltech edu os you gotta get this thing msc caltech pasadena ca os the operating system of tomorrow today greg moffatt bell northern research inc ottawa canada my opinions not bnr s
