Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] to prevent mental damages, avoid dB's.

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 29 September 2006 11:33, Brian Padalino wrote:
> You could open Google Spreadsheets in the web browser you've probably
> already got open.  Not only that, but you can share it with your
> buddies for collaborative editing so everyone can use it!

Or write it in javascript..

> Or you could just write a bc script to to handle it.  That uses much
> less memory, I am sure.

Lacks flexibility.

> Or we could ask Google to build it into their calculator function so
> you can just type "200 dB in mW" and it would do the conversion for
> you!

Kind of slow.

> I wasn't trying to be a jerk, but I have noticed that spreadsheets are
> much better at converting data to a visual format as well as extending
> a dataset you might be building and doing some visual interpretations.
>  There's always more than one way to skin a cat, as GNURadio is all
> about.

<shrugs>
Spreadsheets take too long to load, we already have tcl/tk stuff running 
because our radar uses it.

Presumably a Python version would be good for GNURadio since you'd already be 
using it :)

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