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The threshold of hearing varies between individuals, but is commonly taken as 0dB. About one-half of the (undamaged, young, non noise-exposed, ... ...) people will have hearing better than the threshold, and the other half will hear worse than the threshold.

But to the point, 10dB is 10 times, 20 dB is 100 times, and 30 dB is 1000 times.

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