Re: [LAD] twice as loud

On Friday 23 July 2010 07:21:00 Florian Faber wrote:
> On 07/23/10 00:06, drew Roberts wrote:
> > Is some pepper dish twice as hot as another?
>
> If you define 'hot' as 'amount of capsaicine', there is the Scoville scale.

I know of the scale, but does doubling the amount of capsaicin double
the "heat"?

You can measure lots of things wrt sound and say one sound has double X units
of the other, but does that make the loudness double?
>
>
> Flo

drew
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Received on Fri Jul 23 16:15:10 2010