Magnifying Numeric Illiteracy放大的數字文盲

There are hundreds of non-technical acronyms on the net, lol (laughing out loud), rofl (rolling on the floor laughing), ttfn (ta-ta for now) etc (et cetera), so maybe it was not so odd when an email correspondent asked me what “db” at the foot of a message stood for.有數以百計的非技術性縮略語就淨， lol （笑出來） ， rofl （滾動在地板上笑） ， ttfn局長（電訊局長達現在）等（等） ，所以也許是沒有那麼多的時候電子郵件記者問我什麼是“分貝”在腳下的一個訊息主張。 But, then again, the correspondent had emailed me to ask if I were the actor David Bradley (he plays the janitor in the Harry Potter movies).但是，然後再，記者曾通過電子郵件發送我不禁要問，如果我是演員大衛布拉德利（他扮演的校工在哈利波特的電影） 。 This person obviously knew my name, so what prevented them from making the instant connection, db –> DB –> David Bradley?這個人顯然知道我的名字，那麼，阻止他們作出即時連線，分貝-> “分貝- >”大衛布拉德利？ I don’t honestly know, but I mentioned this to my good buddy Stephan Logan who was not so dumbfounded as he had been when someone called his company to inquire about我不知道，坦白說，但我提到這是我的好好友史蒂芬洛根誰不是這樣目瞪口呆，因為他已當有人要求他的公司，以詢問有關 desktop magnifiers桌面放大鏡 . 。

This person said they had an 8X magnifier and wondered which would be stronger, the company’s 10X or 14X?此人表示，他們已是一個8倍速的放大鏡，並想知道這將是強大，該公司的10倍或14x ？ Stephan asked him if he was pulling his leg and the customer was dumbstruck…史蒂芬問他，如果他是拉他的腿和客戶是dumbstruck …

I suppose there are some numbers that are actually reciprocals with respect to certain properties.我想有一些數字，其實是倒數方面的某些屬性。 The f stop values used in photography.的F停止使用的值在拍攝。 A smaller f means a larger aperture and so a shorter depth of field.較小的f手段，較大的光圈，所以在較短的景深。 Bigger f number means smaller aperture means more depth of field.更大的F數是指規模較小的光圈意味著更多的景深。