[ARC5] Product detectors - the name.

[Richard Knoppow]

    I find the same thing interesting. The name for something can be so 
far from its function as to confuse understanding of what it is. I am 
glad you taught your students to be careful of language.

On 5/10/2017 1:26 PM, Bruce Long wrote:
> Yeah Richard
>
> A rose by another name would still smell sweet but possibly confuse the
> hell out of everyone.  When I was teaching I was a bit of a jerk
> requiring proper terminology to avoid confusion and clarify technical
> communications.  A dBm is NOT the same as a dB.
>

>

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