Re: streams and groups

[Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 64K dollar question is: How did Jont arrive to his answer of 1024 speakers?
I have my own answer and it is identical to Jont's, but I am curious how he
got it. I promise to reveal my reasoning after he tells us about his.

Pierre


Jont Allen wrote:


> Here is a related question, and I know the answer:
> How many independent talks do you  need to add together before you get speech
> weighted noise, that no longer sounds like speech added together? Give the
> answer
> as a power of 2 (to limit the choices). Scroll to the bottom to see the
> answer.
>
>
> I which I could type the number upside down.
> N=1024
>
> --

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