I feel stupid, but... what is an octave? - Page 2

SY · 8th April 2003, 07:34 PM

Book recommendation: Music, Physics, and Engineering by Harry Olson. Superbly useful.

dre · 8th April 2003, 07:38 PM

A decade is a factor 10. You see them often in diagrams with the frequency along the horizontal axis. In stead of a lineair scale a scale with decades is used i.e. after every so may milimeters the value is multiplied by 10. (10, 100, 1000, 10000Hz etc)

8th April 2003, 07:34 PM	#11
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8th April 2003, 07:38 PM	#12
dre diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Netherlands	A decade is a factor 10. You see them often in diagrams with the frequency along the horizontal axis. In stead of a lineair scale a scale with decades is used i.e. after every so may milimeters the value is multiplied by 10. (10, 100, 1000, 10000Hz etc)

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