On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 10:50 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:00:04 +0000, carmen wrote: > > > It's not possible for a host to know how to scale a port from just the > > > unit > > > labeling. Unit labeling and input value scaling are independent, in fact > > > are completely orthogonal except in certain conventional cases like > > > IEC for some (not all!) dB ranges. > > > > ++. there definitely needs to be a 'logarithmic' hint. maybe even log(10) > > vs log(2). > > Errm, you you really need to think about that harder. The hint that "this > should be scaled logarithmically" isn't enough information to do anything > useful - try it. If you try to define an operation that hosts can apply > generally then you will find there are lots of cases where it can't > be applied. Either because it can't be computed, or because it does > something unhelpful.
It's information with which you can do something a LOT more useful than without... -DR-
