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cousin_it
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The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
For a 6dB/octave lowpass filter, I would say power gain is inversely proportional to frequency squared (1/f^2). There's precedent for this notation, for example pink noise is known as both 3dB/octave and as 1/f.
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