Re: [gpm] Help with translation

["Leonardo Fontenelle" <leo fontenelle gmail com>]

You've been most helpful, and an updated translation should hit cvs
soon. About Glade or Gazpacho, I'll install any of them when there is
a string freeze, so that I'll checkout the source code only once
(funny to say that as a Gentoo user!), but I wouldn't bother if the
development team donated me some laptops and wirless peripherals to
test the UI :o]

Leonardo Fontenelle

2006/5/12, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>:
> On 11/05/06, Leonardo Fontenelle <leo fontenelle gmail com> wrote:
> > Did some update to the po file. But I must ask: what is damping
> > factor? Wikipedia defines it as "ratio of the impedances of two
> > electronic devices, the load impedance and the source impedance", but
> > I couldn't find an expression in my language with the same definition.
> > Could you please define it for me with other words? Thanks!
>
> Damping is basically where if we get instantanous "spikes" then the
> value is smoothed between two points. For example:
>
> If we don't smooth, then we get for power:
>
> 10 -> 10
> 400 -> 400
> 50 -> 50
> 80 -> 80
>
> If we do smooth, we get:
>
> 10 -> 10
> 400 -> 90
> 50 -> 70
> 80 -> 75
>
> so we get rid of the "peakyness".
>
> Does that help? Thanks.
>
> Richard.