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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/TheDarkanianLord on 2023-06-26 04:55:25+00:00.

I’ve always heard that the decibel scale for hearing is logarithmic, and I’ve recently learned that our eyes view and compare objects logarithmically as well. How exactly does this process work, and is it different between the eyes and the ears?