Dangling Participles. Dangling participles (also known as dangling modifiers) sound more painful than they actually are. Consider the following sentences all of which contain dangling participles or dangling modifiers. In the sentence below, the modifying clause (Rushing to catch the bus) contains a participle (rushing).
S/N and (S+N)/N When measuring signal to noise ratio there are two basic elements to the measurement. One is the noise level and the other is the signal. As a result of the way measurements are made, often the signal measurement also includes noise as well, i.e. it is a signal plus noise measurement.
Pink noise, or 1/Æ, (one over frequency) is a low frequency wave-like pattern with equal energy in all octaves. a chart! (Yes that explains everything I'm sure.) Pink noise straddles the line between white noise and brown noise. White noise is entirely uncorrelated data, complete chaos, the snow on the tv screen. Brown noise is highly correlated data full of predictability. So pink noise is where the chaos of white noise and the order of brown noise meet. Some things send out the actual frequency of pink noise and some behaviors or patterns when tracked and put on a graph match up to the pattern of pink noise. I think pink noise sounds like a big waterfall. I'm listening to it right now. It's really good at drowning out the outside world, curing the ringing in your ears, or for just relaxing. Things with pink noise: wind; pulsating quasars; your heartbeat