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It would be harder to search for, and to a lay person it still doesn’t explain what it is. Even worse, given the ambiguity of the word ‘normal’ it could easily cause misapprehensions. Ask the person on the street what normal noise is and they’re probably going to answer in decibels.

At least Gaussian noise is easily googled.



I'd consider 'normal noise' to be 'white noise'


The value in the understanding of the term is not in how searchable it is.




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