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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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| On 11/19/2010 11:08 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
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| 0dBFs is the upper limit for an instantaneous voltage
| measure for
| the output of a system of digital to analog conversion.
|
| I'm still having a difficult time understanding what he
| wants to be defined. We're telling him what 0 dBFS means
| because that's really the only significant point in a
| sampling system. He's asking for some arbitrary conversion
| to a sine wave of arbitrary amplitude, and as far as I know,
| there's no way to calculate that from anything but an
| infinite number of samples. I don't have time for that.

Mike, he's just yanking your chain. He gets off on it. It has nothing to
do with anything but that.

Steve King