Re: Tests show a human side to chimps

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 16:44:08 GMT

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    Hi Mark Mills --

    >Alternatively, one might conclude 'patterned noise' is self contradictory,
    >noise is patternless.

    I'm not at all sure that is true. Well, to a computer scientist or to an
    information scientist, yes, 'noise' is irrelevant background and
    non-analyzable.

    But to an acoustic scientist, no, noise is quite simply the sound-

    "The sensation caused by vibrating wave motion that is perceived by the
    organs of hearing."

    There are special cases of noise, called 'pink noise' and 'white noise'
    that are indeed fully random (to the extent they can be) and patternless,
    since they are full or near full-spectrum sounds without repeating
    characteristics.

    - Wade

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